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Opium Salar Abdoh (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

17 Jun 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h177mm x w112mm x s21mm 185g ISBN13: 9780571221172 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22117-2 ISBN10: 0571221173 EAN: 9780571221172 x Description: Opium is the story of a world-weary young American who has spent a substantial part of his thirty-something years in the Middle East.

Formerly a low-level drug-runner along the Afghan/Iran border, he is now living in New York and keeping a low profile as a simple hotel clerk. But in the new age of mass terror Chase's past inevitably catches up to him, and he finds himself on a quest that thrusts him through three continents where he is confronted by drug dealers and assassins, Middle Eastern agents and embittered Western converts to Islam, as well as powerful Moslem Shiite clerics who run the clandestine arm of one of the most insidious security services ever assembled. Finding himself in this maze of intrigue, murder and doubledeals, he sees no option but to play a lethal end-game in the heart of the Axis of Evil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 205g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781782119609 ISBN13: 978-1-78211-960-9 ISBN10: 1782119604 EAN: 9781782119609 x Description: WINNER OF THE 9MOBILE PRIZE FOR LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEYejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 1980s Nigeria, Stay With Me is a story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the power of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about the desperate attempts we make to save ourselves, and those we love, from heartbreak. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lyrebird Cecelia Ahern (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

04 May 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 300g ISBN13: 9780007501892 ISBN13: 978-0-00-750189-2 ISBN10: 0007501897 EAN: 9780007501892 x Description: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

She will change your life forever...

'An emotional love story with great heart' Sunday Express In the south-west of Ireland, rugged mountains meet bright blue lakes and thick forests. Deep in the woods, a young woman lives alone, forever secluded from the world, her life a well-kept secret. She possesses an extraordinary talent, the likes of which no-one has seen before: a gift that will earn her the nickname Lyrebird.

When Solomon stumbles into Laura's solitary existence, her life is turned on its head. Pulled from her peaceful landscape to the cacophony of Dublin, she is confronted by a world desperate to understand her.

But while Solomon knows the world will embrace Laura, will it free her to spread her wings - or will it trap her in a gilded cage? Like all wild birds, she needs to fly free...

Lyrebird is a thoughtful, deeply moving love story; a story of the wild heart in us all and the quiet that lies underneath the world's noise. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Year I Met You Cecelia Ahern (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

04 Jun 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 220g ISBN13: 9780007501809 ISBN13: 978-0-00-750180-9 ISBN10: 0007501803 EAN: 9780007501809 x Description: *Winner of the Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year* A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented author The year that changed my life. For Jasmine, losing her job felt like losing everything.The year I found home. With a life built around her career and her beloved sister Heather, suddenly her world becomes the house and garden she has hardly seen and the neighbours she has yet to meet.The year I met you. But being fired is just the beginning for Jasmine. In the year that unfolds she learns more about herself than she could ever imagine and more about other people than she ever dreamed. Sometimes friendship is found in the most unexpected of places. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops Hanan Al-Shaykh (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

05 Aug 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm 230g ISBN13: 9780747561316 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-6131-6 ISBN10: 0747561311 x Description: At the intersection of tradition and modernity, East and West, childhood and adulthood, Hanan al-Shaykh's characters find their way through the shifting and ambiguous power relationships that shape the landscape of the modern Arab world. A woman feigns insanity to escape from an empty marriage, only to have her plans backfire; a young Danish missionary finds herself slowly and inexorably drawn into the world of the Yemeni village where she has been stationed; and a woman's lighthearted attempt to contact the world of the dead turns serious when she encounters the spirit of her late husband. At once clever and evocative, I SWEEP THE SUN OFF ROOFTOPS is a collection of great insight, wit and poignancy, placing Hanan al-Shaykh among the foremost cosmopolitan writers of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Cure For Death By Lightning Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

15 Jan 1998

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h196mm x w126mm x s18mm ISBN13: 9781860493874 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-387-4 ISBN10: 1860493874 EAN: 9781860493874 x Description: The remote Turtle Valley in British Columbia is home to fifteen-year-old Beth Weeks and a community of eccentric but familiar characters.

There, amidst a stunning landscape of purple swallows and green skies, strange and unsettling events occur: children go missing, a girl is mauled by a crazy bear and Beth too is being pursued... The Cure for Death by Lightning is a rich and thrilling novel, as filled with strange deeds and dark fears as with beauty and magic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Heaven Virginia Andrews (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

14 Nov 1985

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s25mm 200g ISBN13: 9780006172055 ISBN13: 978-0-00-617205-5 ISBN10: 0006172059 EAN: 9780006172055 This Product Replaces: 9780006172055 x Description: From the bestselling author of 'Flowers in the Attic' comes the first book in the series centred around the Casteel family and its dark and mysterious past.

Repackaged to attract a new generation of Andrews' fans HER NAME WAS HEAVEN, HER LIFE WAS ANYTHING BUT Heaven's mother Angel had died in childbirth, and from that moment her father turned against her. Her only allies, it seemed, were her four halfbrothers and sisters.

When their father, poor and desperate, sold them to strangers, Heaven was left alone and friendless. Her only hope was to reunite her family.

But how?

So begins the heartbreaking, magical story of the Casteel family, continued in 'Dark Angel', 'Fallen Hearts', 'Gates of Paradise' and 'Web of Dreams'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

22 Oct 1998

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 366pp h199mm x w130mm 265g Film tie-in (originally 0099743612) ISBN13: 9780099752615 ISBN13: 978-0-09-975261-5 ISBN10: 0099752611 x Description: A novel about American politics, last published in 1996, and now reissued to tie in with the release of the film of the same name, starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Fourth Estate Jeffrey Archer (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

14 Apr 1997

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 560pp h178mm x w111mm 296g ISBN13: 9780006496458 ISBN13: 978-0-00-649645-8 ISBN10: 0006496458 x Description: At first glance, Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend seem to have little in common, but both of them are gamblers and are prepared to risk everything in their battle to control the biggest media empire in the world. Only one of them will succeed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Deja View Lisa Armstrong (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

28 Mar 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w110mm x s28mm 230g ISBN13: 9780340824610 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82461-0 ISBN10: 0340824611 EAN: 9780340824610 x Description: Sydney and Charlie have the perfect marriage. They must have because everyone keeps telling them so. In fact, Sydney's whole life is sussed. Two adorable(ish) children, one adoring(ish) husband, one nanny, one cleaner, one lovely house. And latterly a glamorous job, albeit part time and quite possibly nepotistically come by. What's not to be ecstatic about? And then a new couple move in across the road: a very perfect, impeccable, tiny stranger with a Gwyneth Paltrow accent, and a man Sydney hasn't seen since she was 20. Sydney has never admitted to herself that Dylan broke her heart. But when she sees him again she begins to wonder... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Testaments: The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Sep 2020

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w128mm x s30mm 386g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784708214 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-821-4 ISBN10: 1784708216 EAN: 9781784708214 x Description: THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about the real-life events that inspired The Testaments and The Handmaid's Tale._________________________________PRAISE FOR THE TESTAMENTS:'Everything The Handmaid's Tale fans wanted and more.

Prepare to hold your breath throughout, and to cry real tears at the end' Stylist'Atwood challenges us constantly and poses the question that lies like a pearl inside the shell of this frighteningly readable novel, "Before you sit in judgement, how would you behave in Gilead?''' Sunday Telegraph'She manages to write about the darkest and most terrifying parts of human psychology in a way that is still deeply funny and full of dark strange hope' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power'A plump, pacy, witty and tightly plotted page-turner... Atwood is on top form' Observer'She is one of the greatest

writers of the past century' Sunday Times'How did she manage to make darkness feel so effortless? How did she think to inject humour where no humour should exist? Because she's Margaret Atwood, and she can do anything' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4 3 2 1 Paul Auster (Author) Series:

Edition:

Open Market - Airside ed

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

04 Oct 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 1088pp h178mm x w111mm x s45mm 591g ISBN13: 9780571324644 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32464-4 ISBN10: 0571324649 EAN: 9780571324644 x Description: 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 will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge.

Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4 3 2 1 Paul Auster (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

14 Sep 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1088pp h198mm x w129mm x s45mm 763g ISBN13: 9780571324651 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32465-1 ISBN10: 0571324657 EAN: 9780571324651 x Description: 'A masterpiece.' Daily Mail 'Absorbing and immersive . . . the author's greatest novel.' FT SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 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 but entirely different paths. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.

'Remarkable . . . A novel that contains multitudes.' New York Times 'A vast portrait of the turbulent mid-20th century . . . wonderfully, vividly conveyed.' New Statesman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gift of Wings Richard Bach (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

09 Apr 1990

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h197mm x w130mm x s20mm 204g ISBN13: 9780330304214 ISBN13: 978-0-330-30421-4 ISBN10: 0330304216 EAN: 9780330304214 x Description: These stories, inspired by Bach's lifelong passion for flight, filled with memories of friends from the past and friends not yet met, are woven together with warmth, honesty and courage. With signs and signals, coincidences and tangents turning up at every juncture, Bach shows how truly complex and beautiful life can be, and also how its troubles can in fact knock us onto better paths or teach us lessons we benefit from in other situations. Drawing on the allegorical power of flight, each a mini-parable, these stories will inspire you with their simple experiences made technicolour by the prism of Bach's extraordinary imagination. Celebrating Richard Bach's unique vision, these transcend their pages to touch the real drama of life with magic that reaches out to us all across its limitless horizons. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Eucalyptus Murray Bail (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

The Harvill Press

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

20 May 1999

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781860464959 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-495-9 ISBN10: 1860464955 EAN: 9781860464959 x Description: On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can name all the species of the eucalypt, down to the last tree. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gabriel's Lament Paul Bailey (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

05 Nov 1998

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm 285g ISBN13: 9781857025880 ISBN13: 978-1-85702-588-0 ISBN10: 1857025881 x Description: Gabriel Harvey is happy until his father inherits a lot of money and becomes a snob and his beloved mother, 35 years younger than his father, vanishes. Gabriel feels that he'll see her again, but gradually comes to understand that her "holiday" is a complete separation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Peter Smart's Confessions Paul Bailey (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

04 May 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h197mm x w130mm 169g ISBN13: 9781857025675 ISBN13: 978-1-85702-567-5 ISBN10: 1857025679 x Description: Reissue to follow up publication of Paul Bailey's new novel Kitty and Virgil. Both 'Peter Smart's Confessions' and 'Gabriel's Lament' were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The eponymous hero of Peter Smart's Confessions, an unhappy husband and none-too-successful actor, is writing after a suicide attempt. Peter's mother, as an actor friend enthusiastically points out, is a comic monster: 'If you put her in a book -- as they say -- no one would believe her...Only Wagner could do her justice.' She's matched by the larger-than-life eccentric, F. Leonard Cottle, randy retired doctor and author of 'With Stethoscope and Scalpel', who employs Peter's mother as housekeeper after her husband dies. Cottle introduces the boy Peter to the facts of life. There are some bravura-satirical set pieces on playwrights, players and critics: the staging and reception of a 'revolutionary' production of Hamlet based on the premise that he was suffering from congenital syphilis, a pointed parody of Eliot's The Cocktail Party. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Awfully Big Adventure: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1990 Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Abacus

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

06 Feb 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h133mm x w201mm x s14mm 150g ISBN13: 9780349116150 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11615-0 ISBN10: 0349116156 EAN: 9780349116150 x Description: 'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' The TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IN 1990It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to interpret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

26 Mar 1992

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm x s11mm 140g ISBN13: 9780140156966 ISBN13: 978-0-14-015696-6 ISBN10: 0140156968 x Description: Contains five short stories by Beryl Bainbridge, including "The Bottle Factory Outing". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dressmaker Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

30 Jul 1992

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h195mm x w135mm x s11mm 122g ISBN13: 9780140156997 ISBN13: 978-0-14-015699-7 ISBN10: 0140156992 x Description: If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies. So when a GI came to call, she was sure that love and escape would follow. But Nellie knew different - the boy would have to go. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Winter Garden Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Abacus

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

04 Dec 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h198mm x w126mm x s6mm 206g ISBN13: 9780349116099 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11609-9 ISBN10: 0349116091 EAN: 9780349116099 x Description: Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds adultery a terrible strain.He tells his wife that he needs a rest, so she happily packs him off for a fishing holiday in the Highlands. Only, unknown to her, Douglas is actually flying off to Moscow with Nina, as a guest of the Soviet Artists' Union. It is then that things begin to get very complicated indeed... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Young Adolf Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Abacus

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

03 Jul 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h200mm x w135mm x s14mm 164g ISBN13: 9780349116136 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11613-6 ISBN10: 034911613X EAN: 9780349116136 x Description: Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Blue Guitar John Banville (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

30 Jun 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241970010 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97001-0 ISBN10: 0241970016 EAN: 9780241970010 x Description: From John Banville, one of the world's greatest writers, comes The Blue Guitar, a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship.Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy together, simply happy.Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly, the wife of his friend Marcus, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home. From here he tells the story of a year, from one autumn to the next. Many surprises and shocks await him, and by the end of his story, he will be forced to face himself and seek a road towards redemption.Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2016 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco (Author) Ann Goldstein (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

20 Mar 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 123g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847671035 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-103-5 ISBN10: 1847671039 EAN: 9781847671035 x Description: Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience his predecessor never explored. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of Hector, we see through human eyes and feel with human hearts the unforgettable events first recounted more than 3,000 years ago events arranged not by the whims of the gods in this instance but by the dictates of human nature.

With Andromache, Patroclus, Priam, and the rest, we are privy to the ghastly confusion of battle, the clamour of the princely councils, the intimacies of the bedchamber until finally only a blind poet is left to recount secondhand the awful fall of Ilium.

Imbuing the stuff of legend with a startlingly new relevancy and humanity, Baricco gives us The Iliad as we have never known it. His transformative achievement is certain to delight and fascinate all the readers of Homer's indispensable classic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Iliad Alessandro Baricco (Author) Series:

Vintage International

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage

Pub Date:

14 Aug 2007

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) CPSIA choking hazard - 158pp h202mm x w141mm x s13mm 191g ISBN13: 9780307275394 ISBN13: 978-0-307-27539-4 ISBN10: 0307275396 EAN: 9780307275394 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco (Author) Alastair McEwen (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

17 Jul 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 174g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847670748 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-074-8 ISBN10: 1847670741 EAN: 9781847670748 This Product is Replaced By: 9781786896438 x Description: A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear.

Adams may furnish the key to the girl's salvation, but only the fulfilment of his obsessive secret purpose - to answer murder with murder - can conclude the journey that has brought him from the ends of the earth. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco's novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

John Brown's Body A.L. Barker (Author) Series:

Virago Modern Classics

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

02 Sep 1999

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h197mm x w129mm x s14mm 180g ISBN13: 9781860497209 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-720-9 ISBN10: 1860497209 EAN: 9781860497209 x Description: Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling lives in the flat above the Tomelty's and is a dealer in pesticides. Marise's commercial traveller husband casually mentions that he recognizes Ralph as John Brown, acquitted for lack of evidence of an atrocious double murder. Nevertheless, Marise encourages Ralph's attentions, in need of the exciting combination of passion and fear.

A serious exploration of the nature of our experience of ourselves and each other, of the tug between body and soull, life and death, truth and fantasy, this is an extraordinary novel written in the precise ,impeccable prose for which A L Barker is so famed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Abarat 2: Days of Magic, Nights of War Clive Barker (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

02 Oct 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 576pp h178mm x w111mm x s34mm 298g ISBN13: 9780007227723 ISBN13: 978-0-00-722772-3 ISBN10: 0007227728 EAN: 9780007227723 x Description: A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author.

Film rights sold to Disney for $8 million on the paintings alone.

The Abarat; a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands - one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time.

Candy Quackenbush, escaping her dull, dull life from the most boring place in our world, Chickentown, USA, finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely, one which links her to marvels and mysteries-and even to murder...

In this, the second volume in Clive Barker's extraordinary fantasy for both adults and children, Candy's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the Hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. Why? she wonders.

What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning?

There is a mystery here. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil his plans to take control of the Abarat.

Now Candy's companions must race against time to save her from the clutches of Carrion, and she must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.

A final war is about to begin. And Candy is going to need to make some choices that will change her life forever... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wide Open Nicola Barker (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

05 Apr 1999

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h196mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9780571195664 ISBN13: 978-0-571-19566-4 ISBN10: 0571195660 EAN: 9780571195664 x Description: Fifty miles to the south and east of London, poking out into the estuary of the river Thames, the Isle of Sheppey is a forgotten, misty back water. There's a prison, some wading birds and a small nudist beach. In front of this salty, blasted backdrop, Nicola Barker conjures up an imaginative landscape of breathtaking scope and audacity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

War Talk: Pocket Penguins Pat Barker (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 May 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 64pp h181mm x w112mm x s4mm 44g ISBN13: 9780141023113 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102311-3 ISBN10: 0141023112 EAN: 9780141023113 x Description: Taken from Pat Barker's celebrated Regeneration, War Talk charts two encounters in a time of war - the developing friendship of Wilfed Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and the unexpected romance of Billy Prior and Sarah Lumb.

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The Dream Catcher Maria Barrett (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Time Warner Paperbacks Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

14 Feb 2002

Out of print

Publishing Status:

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s29mm 230g ISBN13: 9780751530568 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3056-8 ISBN10: 0751530565 EAN: 9780751530568 x Description: Sarah, Roz and Janie are firm friends from the school run at Wynchcombe Primary. But they also have something else in common: each has a dream. For Sarah, it is finding a way through the constant struggle of bringing up her partially deaf son Rory alone. For Roz, it is overcoming the difficulty of keeping her farm afloat and for Janie, a GP's wife, it is how to escape an ever-growing emptiness in her life that cannot explain or fill. Then Janie's brother Marcus, a top city analyst, has an idea. He suggests that Janie and her friends set up an investment group - pooling their money and playing the stock market together - and introduces them to his stockbroker friend, Alex. Before long, with a mixture of luck, instinct and research, the women begin to make some serious money. The sort of money that makes dreams come true. But good dreams can easily turn bad. When the chance to invest in an almost certain take over target comes up, the investment club, hesitant at first, decide to go for it. Only things are not what they seemed, insider trading is a criminal offence, and someone has a hidden agenda. When the gains are high, so are the risks ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Days Without End Sebastian Barry (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

06 Feb 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 253g ISBN13: 9780571277049 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27704-9 ISBN10: 0571277047 EAN: 9780571277049 x Description: Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.' Observer 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 both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Idiot Elif Batuman (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

26 Apr 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 298g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099583172 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958317-2 ISBN10: 0099583178 EAN: 9780099583172 x Description: 'A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story' Observer**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018** Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, and spends a lot of time thinking about what language - and languages - can and cannot do. Along the way, she befriends Svetlana, a cosmopolitan Serb, and obsesses over Ivan, a mathematician from Hungary. Selin ponders profound questions about how culture and language shape who we are, how difficult it is to be a failed writer, and how baffling love is. At once clever and clueless, Batuman's heroine shows us with perfect hilarity and soulful inquisitiveness just how messy it can be to forge a self.'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Sellout: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Paul Beatty (Author) Series:

Edition:

EXPORT

Imprint:

Oneworld Publications

Publisher:

Oneworld Publications

Pub Date:

24 Mar 2016

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm EXPORT ISBN13: 9781786070173 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-017-3 ISBN10: 1786070170 EAN: 9781786070173 x Description: `Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times `The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian `The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.

Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral.

What's more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry, The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education Sybille Bedford (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Counterpoint

Publisher:

Counterpoint

Pub Date:

12 Apr 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 368pp 500g ISBN13: 9781582431437 ISBN13: 978-1-58243-143-7 ISBN10: 1582431434 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Windows on the World Frederic Beigbeder (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

05 Sep 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 220g ISBN13: 9780007184705 ISBN13: 978-0-00-718470-5 ISBN10: 0007184700 EAN: 9780007184705 x Description: A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.

'The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'

Weaving together fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, 'Windows on the World' dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension.

Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Island Walkers John Bemrose (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Pub Date:

13 Sep 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h243mm x w157mm x s40mm 750g n/a ISBN13: 9780719566592 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6659-2 ISBN10: 0719566592 EAN: 9780719566592 x Description: For generations, the Walkers have lived in the Island, a small, working class mill-town beside Ontario's Attawan River. But in the summer of 1965 their peace is shattered. When a union organiser comes to town, Alf Walker is forced to choose between loyalty to his friends and advancement up the company ranks. His decision threatens to overwhelm not only his own life, but also his family. Through the course of the book, we come to know the Walkers intimately - Alf, as he attempts to keep ahead of these turbulent events; his son Joe, whose world is overturned by the passion and uncertainty of young love; and his wife Margaret, who must reconcile her English upbringing with the world in which she finds herself. The Island Walkers is a deeply moving novel of a family struggling to make its way through a changing world. Written with remarkable understanding and perception, it reveals a writer of rare vision and accomplishment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Jaws Peter Benchley (Author) Series:

Edition:

Unabridged edition

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

01 Oct 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 336pp h177mm x w111mm x s20mm 188g ISBN13: 9780330243827 ISBN13: 978-0-330-24382-7 ISBN10: 0330243829 EAN: 9780330243827 x Description: It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble - a warning of what was to come - took the form of a young woman's body, or what was left of it, washed up on the long, white stretch of beach . . . A summer of terror has begun. `Pick up Jaws before midnight, read the first five pages, and I guarantee you'll be putting it down breathless and stunned, as dawn is breaking the next day' Daily Express Peter Benchley's JAWS first appeared in 1974, creating a legend that refuses to die. For a new generation, the ultimate holiday nightmare is about to begin all over again . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Natasha and Other Stories David Bezmozgis (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Sep 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w131mm x s16mm 150g ISBN13: 9780099461166 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946116-6 ISBN10: 0099461161 EAN: 9780099461166 x Description: Meet the Bermans - Bella, Roman and their son Mark - Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Natasha brings the Bermans - and the Russian Jewish enclaves of Toronto - to life in stories full of big, desperate, utterly believable consequence. In 'Tapka', six-year-old Mark's first experiments in English bring ruin and near tragedy to the neighbours upstairs. In 'Roman Berman, Massage Therapist', Roman and Bella stake all their hopes for Roman's business on their first, humiliating dinner with a North American family. In the title story, a stark, funny anatomy of first love, we witness Mark's sexual awakening at the hands of his fourteen-year-old cousin, a new immigrant from the New Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Submission Marthe Blau (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Corgi Books

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

03 Jan 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w127mm x s14mm 157g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552772372 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77237-2 ISBN10: 0552772372 EAN: 9780552772372 x Description: You'll want to scream, but you'll be gagged. You'll want to cry, but you'll be blindfolded. You'll want to run away, but you'll be tied up.

You'll have no way of begging me, I'll do what I want with you. Sexual obsession, domination and extreme lust - Submission is the story of a young married Parisian lawyer who is drawn into a sado-masochistic relationship. A handsome stranger she meets in the courts issues her with a series of instructions which she finds herself compelled to follow. As the violence of their encounters escalates, it becomes a dangerous addiction that she can't break. But how far can she go and how much of her life will she risk in the process? Based on the author's own experiences, this astonishing book sent shockwaves through the French establishment.

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Friend of the Earth T C Boyle (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

07 Sep 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h175mm x w106mm 183g ISBN13: 9780142000137 ISBN13: 978-0-14-200013-7 ISBN10: 0142000132 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Boyle T. Coraghessan : Road to Wellville & Untitled Stories: Road to Wellville & Untitled Stories T C Boyle (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Publisher:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Pub Date:

07 Dec 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 496pp h212mm x w140mm 455g illustrations ISBN13: 9780140167184 ISBN13: 978-0-14-016718-4 ISBN10: 0140167188 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Playing the Game Barbara Taylor Bradford (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

03 Mar 2011

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 320g ISBN13: 9780007375264 ISBN13: 978-0-00-737526-4 ISBN10: 0007375263 EAN: 9780007375264 x Description: From the bestselling author of A Woman of Substance comes an explosive novel about one woman's journey to success.

Seduction, passion and international intrigue. Playing the game has never been so thrilling.

Good looking, successful Annette Remmington is a London art consultant and dealer at the top of her game. When a rare and long-lost Rembrandt finds its way into her hands, she becomes the most talked about dealer in the world as she auctions it for millions of pounds.

Married to the dashing Marius Remmington, Annette owes her life to him for it was he who rescued her from a dark and troubled past. And now he wants to hand-pick the best journalist to write a profile on his talented wife.

But Marius has unknowingly made a devastating mistake by bringing Jack Chalmers into their lives and soon Annette's career and marriage are on the line. How could Marcus have known that Jack would uncover a secret that could destroy them all? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Boiling A Frog Christopher Brookmyre (Author) Series:

Jack Parlabane

Edition:

Imprint:

Time Warner Paperbacks Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

03 May 2001

Out of print

Publishing Status:

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h177mm x w108mm x s27mm 220g ISBN13: 9780751531824 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3182-4 ISBN10: 0751531820 EAN: 9780751531824 This Product is Replaced By: 9780349114132 x Description: Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist who is not averse to breaking the law for the sake of a good story, has finally been caught on the petard of his own self-confidence and is experiencing accommodation courtesy of Her Majesty. The fledgling Scottish parliament is in catatonic shock after experiencing its first dose of Westminster sleaze. The Catholic Church of Scotland is taking full advantage of the politicians' discomfort and is riding high in the polls as the voice of morality.Behind the scenes the truth is obscured by the machinations of the spin doctors and in prison, aware he's missing out on a great story, Parlabane discovers that contacts and a pretty way with words are no defence against people he has helped to put away.Part political satire, part cliff-hanging thriller this is high calibre entertainment.And for the author's own view on his books visit his website at www.brookmyre.clara.netAnd for the author's own view on his books visit his website at www.brookmyre.clara.net _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Family Romance Anita Brookner (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

27 Oct 1994 (27 Jan 2000)

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp 180g ISBN13: 9780140234060 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023406-0 ISBN10: 0140234063 EAN: 9780140234060 x Description: A novel centring on the relationship between the classic Brookner heroine (only child, soon bereft of parents, alone in depressing flat) who becomes a feminist academic, and her pleasure-loving French aunt who's into men and bridge parties. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Beside the Ocean of Time George Mackay Brown (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Flamingo

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

08 Jun 1995

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 160g ISBN13: 9780006548621 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654862-1 ISBN10: 0006548628 EAN: 9780006548621 x Description: Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to Viking adventures at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Little Lady, Big Apple Hester Browne (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder & Stoughton

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 472pp ISBN13: 9780340898741 ISBN13: 978-0-340-89874-1 ISBN10: 0340898747 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Milkman Anna Burns (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

20 Sep 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h197mm x w130mm x s25mm 298g ISBN13: 9780571338757 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33875-7 ISBN10: 0571338755 EAN: 9780571338757 x Description: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019 'Blazing.' Daily Telegraph 'Outstanding.' New Statesman 'A triumph.' Guardian 'Utterly compelling.' Irish Times 'The best Booker winner in years.' Metro In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Devil's Footprints John Burnside (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

06 Mar 2008 (03 Apr 2014)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 160g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099479543 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947954-3 ISBN10: 0099479540 EAN: 9780099479543

x Description: Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the sleeping town. Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life, but still feels like an outsider, a blow-in. When Moira Birnie decides that her abusive husband is the devil and then kills herself and her two young sons, a terrible chain of events begins. Michael's infatuation with Moira's teenage daughter takes him on a journey towards a defined fate, where he is forced to face his present and then, finally, his past... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Living Nowhere John Burnside (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

03 Jun 2004 (03 Apr 2014)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 267g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099448556 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944855-6 ISBN10: 0099448556 EAN: 9780099448556 x Description: Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces - in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start. Amongst them are Francis Cameron, from Scotland, and his friend Jan Ruckert, the son of Latvian refugees. Alienated, intelligent and curious, they form a strong and lasting bond: two teenage boys finding their feet in a foreign place. But violence hangs in the Corby air like the ash and the stench from the steel works, and when it comes down it is sudden and lethal - with repercussions that will last a lifetime. Living Nowhere is a story of friendship and loss - a resonant, thrilling book that carries at its core a beautiful and terrible secret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Heaven Looked Upwards Matthew Byrne (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

07 Nov 1997

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 323pp h178mm x w111mm 170g ISBN13: 9780330347198 ISBN13: 978-0-330-34719-8 ISBN10: 0330347195 x Description: The events of the New Testament are retold in a form that brings to life the everyday existence of the ordinary townspeople who become unsuspecting participants in the story of Christ's nativity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The First Man Albert Camus (Author) David Hapgood (Translated by) Series:

Penguin Modern Classics Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 Dec 2001 (31 Oct 2013)

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141185231 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118523-1 ISBN10: 0141185236 EAN: 9780141185231 x Description: The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose povertystricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother, and by the teacher who transforms his view of the world.

The most autobiographical of Camus's novels, it gives profound insights into his life and the powerful themes underlying his work.Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. The works that established his international reputation include THE PLAGUE, THE FALL, THE REBEL and THE OUTSIDER. Camus died in a road accident in 1960 and is remembered as one of the greatest philsophical novelists of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

19 Jun 1989

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 528pp h197mm x w127mm 344g ISBN13: 9780571153046 ISBN13: 978-0-571-15304-6 ISBN10: 0571153046 x Description: Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. Australian writer Peter Carey is the author of a selection of short stories, "The Fat Man in History" and two novels, "Bliss" and "Illywhacker". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Parrot and Olivier in America Peter Carey (Author) Series:

Edition:

Open Market - Airside ed

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

05 Aug 2010

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 592pp h178mm x w111mm x s36mm 364g ISBN13: 9780571253319 ISBN13: 978-0-571-25331-9 ISBN10: 0571253318 EAN: 9780571253319 x Description: Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America.

When Olivier sets sail for America, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in

love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Battle of Pollocks Crossing J. L. Carr (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

The Quince Tree Press

Publisher:

The Quince Tree Press

Pub Date:

01 Dec 1993

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h200mm x w134mm x s15mm Illustrations ISBN13: 9780900847967 ISBN13: 978-0-900847-96-7 ISBN10: 0900847964 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Bloody Chamber & Other Sto Carter Angela (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

29 Oct 1992

Publishing Status:

Unknown

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 128pp ISBN13: 9780140178210 ISBN13: 978-0-14-017821-0 ISBN10: 014017821X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Moonlight in Odessa Janet Skeslien Charles (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

15 Feb 2010

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781408802137 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-0213-7 ISBN10: 1408802139 x Description: AS READ ON BBC RADIO FOUR WINNER OF THE MELISSA NATHAN AWARD FOR COMEDY ROMANCE A tragicomic look at the flourishing market for e-mail order brides, Moonlight in Odessa is a novel about the choices and sacrifices that people make in pursuit of love and stability, and the lengths that we will go to to help - and hinder - each other in search of a happy ending. Odessa, Ukraine, is the humour capital of the former Soviet Union, but with prices rising and employment prospects falling, there is little for Odessans to laugh about. After months of searching, Daria, twenty-three and armed with an engineering degree and perfect English, is offered a plum job as a secretary at a foreign company. But there's a stone in every plum, and in this case it's her new boss Mr. Harmon, who makes it clear that sleeping with him should be the first item on her to-do list.

Loath to give up her newfound perks (the taste of real coffee, a new apartment and a salary she and her grandmother can actually live on), Daria manages to evade Harmon's advances by recruiting her neighbour, the slippery Olga, to be his mistress - a plan that ends up working only too well...And so Daria finds herself moonlighting as an interpreter at Soviet Unions(t), a dating agency specializing in finding gorgeous Odessan brides for lonely Americans.

Daria - so adept at spotting the cracks in the relationships she facilitates - soon discovers that she is not immune to the temptations of the American dream herself. An email correspondence with an apparently shy and sensitive American teacher who offers her a new life in San Francisco, leaves her facing a choice between her beloved city - not to mention the attentions of Vlad, a worryingly attractive mafia gangster - and her long-dreamt-of escape to the land of the free. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Hottest Day of the Year Brinda Charry (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 May 2003

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9780552771214 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77121-4 ISBN10: 055277121X x Description: Tensions in an Indian household enthral and unsettle a young girl staying with her aunt and uncle. When the home help, with whom the girl has made friends, commits suicide, the girl discovers more than she wants to know about her relatives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Breaking Point Steve Perry (Author) Tom Clancy (Author) Steve R. Pieczenik (Author) Series:

Tom Clancy's Net Force

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Publisher:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Pub Date:

30 Nov 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 368pp h172mm x w105mm 175g ISBN13: 9780425176931 ISBN13: 978-0-425-17693-1 ISBN10: 0425176932 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Cutting Edge Tom Clancy (Author) Jerome Priesler (Author) Series:

Tom Clancy's Power Plays S. No.6

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

05 Dec 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h182mm x w114mm x s30mm 244g ISBN13: 9780140294941 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029494-1 ISBN10: 0140294945 x Description: Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the sixth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship that will see the world brought to its knees by a ruthless enemy prepared to stop at nothing. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book repeat the massive success of its predecessors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Politika Tom Clancy (Author) Martin Greenberg (Author) Series:

Tom Clancy's Power Plays S. No.1

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

17 Nov 1997

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h181mm x w113mm x s26mm 214g ISBN13: 9780140273939 ISBN13: 978-0-14-027393-9 ISBN10: 014027393X

x Description: The sudden death of Russia's president has thrown the Russian Federation into chaos. The country is in the grip of famine and an uprising is inevitable. One of the provisional leaders asks the American president for help, but the whole world is watching when a deadly terrorist attack stuns the USA. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dial M for Merde Stephen Clarke (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bantam Press

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

11 Sep 2008

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp 346g ISBN13: 9780593056301 ISBN13: 978-0-593-05630-1 ISBN10: 0593056302 x Description: Englishman Paul West has just received an offer he can't refuse: two weeks in the sun, all expenses paid, with a beautiful blonde called Gloria Monday. M, as Gloria likes to be known, is down south to report on caviar trafficking - but it soon becomes obvious that she's interested in something a lot more fishy than caviar. Meanwhile Paul's best friend Elodie is marrying a French aristocrat, and Paul is asked to do the catering.

Cooking for the French is a risky assignment at the best of times, but Paul, who is starting to feel a bit like James Bond, assures her that nothing can go wrong. Or can it? As Paul is sexually harassed by an English hen party, picked on by French commandoes and arrested by excitable gendarmes, he realises that events are spiralling out of control. And when he discovers that M's real target is France's biggest fish of all - the new President - and that he's coming to Elodie's wedding, Paul knows that the merde really is about to hit the fan ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Merde Factor: (Paul West 5) Stephen Clarke (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Arrow Books Ltd

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

28 Mar 2013

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h178mm x w110mm x s23mm 196g ISBN13: 9780099580546 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958054-6 ISBN10: 0099580543 EAN: 9780099580546 x Description: Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going tres wrong: He's stuck in an apartment so small that he has to cut his baguettes in two to fit them in the kitchen.

His research into authentic French cuisine is about to cause a national strike - and it could be all his fault.

His Parisian business partner is determined to close their tea-room. And thinks that sexually harrassing his female employees is a basic human right.

And Paul's gorgeous ex-girlfriend seems to be stalking him.

Threatened with eviction, unemployment and bankrupcy, Paul realises that his personal merde factor is about to hit the fan... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ready Player One Ernest Cline (Author) Series:

Edition:

Media tie-in

Imprint:

Arrow Books Ltd

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

30 Jan 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784754792 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-479-2 ISBN10: 178475479X EAN: 9781784754792 x Description: PRE-ORDER NOW - READY PLAYER TWO: THE SEQUEL______________________THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERGNow available for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition, perfect for hardcore fans and collectorsA world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.____________________________________If you loved READY PLAYER ONE and can't wait for more, check out ARMADA, Ernest Cline's geek masterpiece!'Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' Independent'Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart' CNN 'Ernest Cline's novel deserves to be a modern classic' SciFiNow'Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, this really is a spectacularly successful debut' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Middle England: Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2019 Jonathan Coe (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Jul 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 300g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241983683 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98368-3 ISBN10: 0241983681 EAN: 9780241983683 x Description: WINNER OF THE THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2019'The book everyone is talking about' The Times'A comedy for our times' Guardian__________________ The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations.

In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter tries to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists, while in London his friend Doug doesn't understand why his teenage daughter is eternally enraged. Meanwhile, newlyweds Sophie and Ian can find nothing to agree on except the fact that their marriage is on the rocks . . .__________________'Coe's back with a bang. Middle England is the novel about Brexit we need' Daily Telegraph 'A pertinent, entertaining study of a nation in crisis' Financial Times, Books of the Year'Very funny. Coe - a writer of uncommon decency reminds us that the way out of this mess is through moderation, through compromise, through that age-old English ability to laugh at ourselves' Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Rotters' Club Jonathan Coe (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

19 Mar 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h199mm x w128mm x s28mm 296g ISBN13: 9780140294668 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029466-8 ISBN10: 014029466X EAN: 9780140294668 x Description: Jonathan Coe's new novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, THE ROTTERS' CLUB captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of 'Old Labour' - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Adultery Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hutchinson

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

14 Aug 2014

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h222mm x w143mm x s28mm 476g ISBN13: 9780091958879 ISBN13: 978-0-09-195887-9 ISBN10: 0091958873 x Description: This is the thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again. Her friends recommend medication. But Linda wants to feel more, not less. And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side of her that she respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared. Even she can't predict what will happen next... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Adultery Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hutchinson

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

14 Aug 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s22mm 323g ISBN13: 9780091958886 ISBN13: 978-0-09-195888-6 ISBN10: 0091958881 EAN: 9780091958886 x Description: The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives.

Linda knows she's lucky.

Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again.

Her friends recommend medication.

But Linda wants to feel more, not less.

And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side of her that she - respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared.

Even she can't predict what will happen next... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:

Edition:

The Pocket Alchemist edition

Imprint:

Harper Thorsons

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

02 Jul 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h157mm x w116mm x s23mm 230g ISBN13: 9780008144227 ISBN13: 978-0-00-814422-7 ISBN10: 0008144222 EAN: 9780008144227 x Description: A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever.

Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. This is such a book - a beautiful parable about learning to listen to your heart, read the omens strewn along life's path and, above all, follow your dreams.

Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing.

With Paulo Coelho's visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore, The Alchemist is a story with the power to inspire nations and change people's lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fifth Mountain Intl Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:

American Collection at Fwc

Edition:

Imprint:

Harper Torch

Publisher:

Harper Torch

Pub Date:

27 Jul 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 245pp ISBN13: 9780060736279 ISBN13: 978-0-06-073627-9 ISBN10: 0060736275 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Spy Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hutchinson

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

21 Nov 2016

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 208pp h204mm x w138mm x s23mm 303g ISBN13: 9781786330543 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-054-3 ISBN10: 1786330547 EAN: 9781786330543 x Description: 'Beautifully written and gripping'. Sunday Mirror When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless.

Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city.

A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men.

But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917 she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees and accused of espionage.

Told in Mata Hari's voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and paid the price. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Winner Stands Alone Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

02 Apr 2009

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h234mm x w153mm x s29mm 535g ISBN13: 9780007306077 ISBN13: 978-0-00-730607-7 ISBN10: 0007306075 EAN: 9780007306077 x Description: The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho.

The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman. His wife Ewa left him two years ago and Igor has never really come to terms with their break up, especially as Ewa is now remarried to a famous fashion designer, Hamid Hussein. Igor is insanely jealous and when Ewa left him he told her that he would destroy 'whole worlds' in order to get her back, and he intends to keep his promise...

Igor has followed Ewa and her new husband to Cannes and his plan is to cause as much violence and destruction as possible until Ewa realises how much he loves her and comes back to him. Ewa loved Igor but she was absolutely terrified of him. She knows that Igor has killed people in the past when he was a soldier, but she also knows a dark secret - that he once cold bloodedly murdered a beggar who was bothering them in a restaurant. Igor is clearly unhinged and he will stop at nothing to regain her love and so he goes on a ruthless killing spree until he tracks down Ewa...

The star-studded film festival acts as a backdrop to Igor's maniacal murdering spree and we are ntroduced to various characters along the way, all of whom are desperately trying to get their big break in the shallow world of show business; Gabriela a young and naive actress who is being exploited by her agent and Jasmine a troubled young Rwandan refugee working as a model.

The Winner Stands Alone is a gripping, fast-paced thriller, and Coelho cleverly weaves in elements of social satire, poking fun at our celebrity and money obsessed culture. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dusklands J.M. Coetzee (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

06 Aug 1998

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099268338 ISBN13: 978-0-09-926833-8 ISBN10: 0099268337 EAN: 9780099268338 x Description: A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity and spurn their feelings of guilt. In these two narratives, Coetzee has crystallized in their absurdity and horror the extremes of scientific evangelism and heroic exploration. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Foe J M Coetzee (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

22 Feb 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 160pp h181mm x w114mm x s13mm 96g ISBN13: 9780140299533 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029953-3 ISBN10: 014029953X x Description: Susan Barton finds herself marooned on an island in the Atlantic with an Englishman named Robinson Cruso and his mute slave Friday.

Rescued after a year of Cruso's company, back in England with Friday in tow, she approaches the author Daniel Foe, offering him the story of the island if he will make her rich and famous. But Foe is less interested in the history of Robinson Cruso than in the story of Susan Barton. How did she earn a living in Brazil? Who were the mutineers who marooned her? Where is the daughter for whom she claims to have been searching the ends of the earth? And how did Friday lose his tongue? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society C Coleman (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Transita

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

14 Oct 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 308pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781905175185 ISBN13: 978-1-905175-18-5 ISBN10: 1905175183 x Description: 'Agnes Borrowdale, seventy-five years old a week on Tuesday, hoisted herself onto the window sill and perched astride it, gripping the wooden frame.' After her escape from the old people's home where she has been placed by her son, Jack, and his new partner, Monica, Agnes's quest to find her grandchildren develops in ways she could never have predicted. Among the new friends she makes on her journey are: Joe, the helpful lorry driver; Molly, the garrulous proprietor of a small, run-down hotel; Gazza, the student whose sprained ankle may have serious consequences for Agnes; and Felix, the retired barrister's clerk, whom Agnes pulls back from attempted suicide. Hoping to rekindle his desire to live, she invents the Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society, but soon fears that this falsehood, having acquired a momentum of its own, will end in tragedy. Meanwhile, Jack, frantically trying to trace his missing mother, spends a night in a police cell on a drunk-driving charge, while an over-zealous young policeman begins to suspect him of a more serious crime.

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The Last Girl Stephan Collishaw (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

01 Sep 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h196mm x w129mm x s19mm 221g None ISBN13: 9780340826928 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82692-8 ISBN10: 0340826924 EAN: 9780340826928 x Description: In the dying days of the twentieth century an elderly poet wanders the streets of Vilnius, haunted by a terrible secret. His memories of the Second World War have been buried for fifty years, but now, as he picks his way through the rubble of the ghetto, and looks in the faces of young women he passes, he is reminded of the girl he once loved - and betrayed - and finds himself once again compelled to tell her story.In a decaying tenement a washerwoman struggles between the twilight world of Vilnius's brothels and her flickering hopes of building a better life for her children. Her son needs $1000 if he is to escape to England, and she knows of only one way to earn such an impossible amount of money. Her life, and the poet's, weave between each other as they both step carefully around the cracks of the past, in search of any kind of peace.And through the tangled debris of Lithuania's past and present, the story of a beautiful Jewish girl and a young poet - whose love was ultimately not strong enough to save her from the persecution of the Russians, or from the final, deadly designs of the Nazis - coils its way to the surface and demands to be told. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (Author) Series:

Dover Thrift Editions

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Dover Publications Inc.

Publisher:

Dover Publications Inc.

Pub Date:

01 Jul 1990

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 80pp h208mm x w4mm ISBN13: 9780486264646 ISBN13: 978-0-486-26464-6 ISBN10: 0486264645 EAN: 9780486264646 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lords Of Discipline Pat Conroy (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Nov 1987 (01 Feb 1996)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 425g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552996839 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99683-9 ISBN10: 0552996831 EAN: 9780552996839 x Description: This powerful novel is the story of four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together they will encounter the hell of vicious bullying and the rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant and proud military institute. They will experience the violence. The passion. The rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal.Together they will brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood... and one of them will not survive.Based on Conroy's own experiences at The Citadel Military school in Charleston, The Lords of Discipline is a remarkable novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Seizure Robin Cook (Author) Series:

Edition:

Unabridged edition

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

02 Apr 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 560pp h178mm x w111mm x s34mm 279g ISBN13: 9780330483063 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48306-3 ISBN10: 0330483064 EAN: 9780330483063 x Description: What could the Shroud of Turin, a conservative Southern senator, and an entrepreneurial researcher have in common? Here politics, religion and bioscience collide in the latest novel from the master of the medical thriller. Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called on to chair a sub-committee introducing legislation to ban new cloning technology, the senator views it as a keystone to his political future. As a consequence, Dr Daniel Lowell inventor of a technique that will take stem-cell research up to the next level - sees a barrier being raised before his biotech start-up. These seemingly opposite personalities may clash during the Senate hearings, yet the two men share a common failing. Butler's hunger for political power far outstrips his genuine concern for the unborn; while Lowell's pursuit of massive personal wealth and celebrity overrides any real considerations for his patients' well-being. Further complicating their confrontation is the confidential news that Senator Butler has developed Parkinson's disease - which leads the senator and the researcher into a Faustian pact. But in attempting to utilise Lowell's new technology prematurely, the therapy leaves the senator with the horrifying effects of temporal lobe epilepsy - causing seizures of the bizarrest order. Taken straight out of tomorrow's headlines, Seizure is a cautionary tale for this age when new biotechnological discoveries are pulling us ever further into a promising yet frightening new world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Combat Stephen Coonts (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

07 Feb 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 912pp h178mm x w112mm x s46mm 460g ISBN13: 9780752844787 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4478-7 ISBN10: 0752844784 EAN: 9780752844787 x Description: We can now predict the shape of war to come...For the first time, COMBAT brings the best military-fiction writers in the world together to reveal how war will be fought in the twenty-first century. From the down and dirty 'ground-pounders' of the US Armoured Cavalry to the new frontiers of warfare, including outer space and the internet, ten authors whose novels define the military-fiction genre have written all-new short novels about the men and women willing to put their lives on the line for freedom. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Isle of Dogs (Om) Patricia Cornwell (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Publisher:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Pub Date:

27 Jun 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 432pp h172mm x w110mm 207g ISBN13: 9780425186763 ISBN13: 978-0-425-18676-3 ISBN10: 0425186768 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Wild Dog and Lone Dan Crawford (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Time Warner International Publisher:

Time Warner International

Pub Date:

01 May 1996

Out of print

Publishing Status:

Published in: United States Paperback / softback A-format paperback 200pp h172mm x w106mm 192g ISBN13: 9780441001835 ISBN13: 978-0-441-00183-5 ISBN10: 0441001831 x Description: A stifling heat wave engulfs the kingdom of Rossacotta, and a series of murders threatens to usurp the power of the boy-king Conan.

Nimnestl and Polijn are united in their quest to expose the city's conspiracy, but time is running out for them as the kingdom is about to be crushed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wayward Angel Elaine Crowley (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Orion mass market paperback

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

03 Aug 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 437pp h178mm x w111mm x s29mm 250g ISBN13: 9780752834207 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-3420-7 ISBN10: 0752834207 EAN: 9780752834207 x Description: It is 1914 and the beautiful Angel Lucas is the pride of the village. But when she becomes pregnant everybody thinks the father is the young priest she works for, so Angel flees to Dublin. She soon discovers she has a lot further to fall before she can find lasing happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dominicana: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 Angie Cruz (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Pub Date:

20 Aug 2020

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h196mm x w128mm x s24mm 240g ISBN13: 9781529304886 ISBN13: 978-1-5293-0488-6 ISBN10: 1529304881 EAN: 9781529304886 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020'A story for now, an important story . . . told with incredible freshness' Martha Lane Fox, Chair of Judges, Women's Prize 2020'The harsh reality of immigration is balanced with a refreshing dose of humour' The Times'This compassionate and ingenious novel has an endearing vibrancy in the storytelling that, page after page, makes it addictive reading' Irish Times'Engrossing . . . the story itself and Ana, the protagonist are terrifically interesting. Loved this' Roxane Gay'This book is a valentine to my mom and all the unsung Dominicanas like her, for their quiet heroism in making a better life for their families, often at a hefty cost to themselves. Even if Dominicana is a Dominican story, it's also a New York story, and an immigrant story. When I read parts of Dominicana at universities and literary venues both here and abroad, each time, audience members from all cultures and generations came up to me and said, this is my mother's story, my sister's story, my story' Angie CruzFifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she must say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights.

Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by Cesar, Juan's free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay.As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family's assets, leaving Cesar to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, dance with Cesar at the Audubon Ballroom, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family.In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Cove Shivering Club Dr. Michael Curtin, PhD (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

17 Apr 1997

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h197mm x w129mm 260g ISBN13: 9781857025705 ISBN13: 978-1-85702-570-5 ISBN10: 1857025709 x Description: If you swam naked across the Cove and back on any of the chill Good Fridays from 1950-57, you were entitled to be a member of the Cove Shivering Club. This farcical novel involves several characters at the club such as Dunstan, who is humiliated by a bank manager and English impresario, Harry Lamb. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Outline: A Novel Rachel Cusk (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

03 May 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 208g ISBN13: 9780571346769 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34676-9 ISBN10: 0571346766 EAN: 9780571346769 x Description: Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings.

And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.

Outline is the first book in a short and yet epic cycle - a masterful trilogy which will be remembered as one of the most significant achievements of our times.

'Outline succeeds powerfully. Among other things, it gets a great variety of human beings down on the page with both immediacy and depth; an elemental pleasure that makes the book as gripping to read as a thriller... A stellar accomplishment.' James Lasdun, Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transit Rachel Cusk (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

03 May 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 220g ISBN13: 9780571346745 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34674-5 ISBN10: 057134674X EAN: 9780571346745

x Description: In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.

Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change. '[Transit] confirms that one of the most fascinating projects in contemporary fiction is unfolding in Rachel Cusk's trilogy.' Adam Foulds _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sacred Stone: A novel from the Oregon Files (EE) Clive Cussler (Author) Craig Dirgo (Author) Series:

The Oregon Files

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

07 Jul 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp 222g ISBN13: 9780141022482 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102248-2 ISBN10: 0141022485 EAN: 9780141022482 x Description: In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for A millennium: a 50,000 year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone-which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. But the astounding find places him in the crosshairs of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves. One is a group of Muslim extremists who have stolen a nuclear device. With the power of the meteorite, they could vaporize any city in the west. The other group is led by a megalomaniacal industrialist who seeks to carry out the utter annihilation of Islam itself. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries known as the Corporation must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone-and prevent the outbreak of World War III... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Under Orders Mark Daniel (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Leopard Books

Publisher:

Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)

Pub Date:

31 May 1996

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 292pp h178mm x w110mm 165g ISBN13: 9780752903521 ISBN13: 978-0-7529-0352-1 ISBN10: 0752903527 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Taxi Driver's Daughter Julia Darling (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

03 Jun 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780141012612 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101261-2 ISBN10: 0141012617 EAN: 9780141012612

x Description: When her mother is sent to prison for three months for assaulting a policeman with a stiletto shoe, fifteen-year-old Caris goes gently off the rails. Whilst her taxi-driver father Mac attempts to keep the family together, Caris meets George, a boy from the other side of the vale and from a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away from school and what she has known, into a new and unnerving world - and looks set to throw the family into terrifying chaos. Julia Darling's acclaimed novel blends the gritty and the everyday with the evocative and the enchanting, to create an original, inventive and often moving portrayal of family ties, suburban life, love and growing up. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Great Lover Jill Dawson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

30 Apr 2009

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h197mm x w133mm x s22mm 235g None ISBN13: 9780340935668 ISBN13: 978-0-340-93566-8 ISBN10: 0340935669 EAN: 9780340935668 x Description: In the summer of 1909, seventeen-year-old Nell Golightly is the new maid at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Cambridgeshire when Rupert Brooke moves in as a lodger. Famed for his looks and flouting of convention, the young poet captures the hearts of men and women alike, yet his own seems to stay intact. Even Nell, despite her good sense, begins to fall for him. What is his secret?This captivating novel gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a tale of mutual fascination and inner turmoil, set at a time of great social unrest. Revealing a man far more complex and radical than legend suggests, it powerfully conveys the allure - and curse - of charisma. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Reflected in You: A Crossfire Novel Sylvia Day (Author) Series:

Crossfire

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

23 Oct 2012

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 255g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781405910255 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1025-5 ISBN10: 1405910259 EAN: 9781405910255 x Description: DISCOVER THE FIRST BOOK IN THE DARKLY SENSUAL CROSSFIRE SERIES THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS AROUND THE WORLD - PERFECT FOR FANS OF FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Eva and Gideon's new relationship is intense and all-consuming, but they are about to discover that dangerous secrets lie smouldering just beneath the surface. Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction . . . my every desire . . . mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work. It was too hard, too painful . . . except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity. We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession . . .Intensely romantic, darkly sensual and completely addictive, Sylvia Day's Reflected in You will take you to the very limits of obsession . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Baumgartner's Bombay Anita Desai (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h199mm x w130mm x s16mm 175g ISBN13: 9780099428527 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942852-7 ISBN10: 0099428520 EAN: 9780099428527 x Description: Hugo Baumgartner, the central character of Anita Desai's dazzling novel, is a wandering Jew all his life. From the agonising scenes of his childhood in pre-war Berlin, through his spell in business in Calcutta and then Bombay, he simply does not belong. Too dark for Hitler's society he is too fair for India; he remains a firanghi, a foreigner, wherever he goes' Daily Telegraph 'Anita Desai writes beautifully, employing an opulent vocabulary to great effect in her physical descriptions.The achievement of a superior writer' Literary Review'A book that puts to shame all the little epithets and pert cliches that praise may offer' London Review of Books _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Games At Twilight Anita Desai (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

04 Oct 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 106g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099428534 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942853-4 ISBN10: 0099428539 EAN: 9780099428534 x Description: Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and whitehot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never seen. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In Custody Anita Desai (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Jul 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099428497 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942849-7 ISBN10: 0099428490 EAN: 9780099428497 x Description: Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India.

An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a project that can only end in disaster. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Blade of Grass Lewis Desoto (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Maia Press Limited

Publisher:

Arcadia Books

Pub Date:

20 Apr 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s129mm 358g ISBN13: 9781904559078 ISBN13: 978-1-904559-07-8 ISBN10: 1904559077 x Description: Marit Laurens, recently orphaned and newly wed, farms with her husband Ben in an Edenic setting near the border of South Africa. But when guerrilla violence and tragedy visit their lives, Marit finds herself in a tug of war between the local Afrikaaners near the farm and the black workers who live on it. Frightened and confused, she turns to the only person who can offer her friendship - her black maid, Tembi. Marit stubbornly determines to run the farm with Tembi's help, until the encroaching civil war brings out their conflicting loyalties and turns their struggle into a desperate fight for their lives. Lyrical and profound, this exciting novel offers a unique perspective on what it means to be black and white in a country where both live and feel entitlement. Moving beyond its own time and place, it becomes a universal story of the price of freedom. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Light and the Dark Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

riverrun

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Jan 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h198mm x w132mm x s30mm 316g ISBN13: 9781780871080 ISBN13: 978-1-78087-108-0 ISBN10: 1780871082 EAN: 9781780871080 x Description: Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century.

Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Open Letter

Publisher:

Open Letter

Pub Date:

23 Oct 2012

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 514pp h216mm x w140mm 610g ISBN13: 9781934824368 ISBN13: 978-1-934824-36-8 ISBN10: 1934824364 EAN: 9781934824368 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sister Of My Heart Chitra Divakaruni (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

03 Sep 1999

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w127mm 252g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552997676 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99767-6 ISBN10: 0552997676 EAN: 9780552997676 x Description: Born in a big old Calcutta house on the same night, the wild, tragic night their fathers were both mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins. Closer even than sisters, they share clothes, possessions, worries, dreams - and three mothers, who preside over the matriarchal Chatterjee household. But when Sudha discovers a terrible secret about their past, their mutual loyalty is sorely tested. A family crisis forces the mothers to start the serious business of arranging the girls' marriages, and the inseparable pair are torn apart. Sudha moves to her new family'as home in rural Bengal, while Anju joins her immigrant husband in California. But nothing has prepared them for the pain, aswell as the joy, that each will have to face in her new life.Rooted in Indian folklore and steeped in the mysticism of ancient tales, this bright, jewel-like novel shines its light on the bonds of family, on love and loss, against the realities of traditional arranged marriages, and the adjustments needed for modern life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Big Money Passos John Dos (Author) Series:

Signet classics

Edition:

Imprint:

Signet Book

Publisher:

Signet Book

Pub Date:

31 Dec 1997

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 560pp h181mm x w106mm 263g ISBN13: 9780451524010 ISBN13: 978-0-451-52401-0 ISBN10: 0451524012 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III (Author) Series:

Edition:

Film Tie-In

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

26 Feb 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h177mm x w111mm x s24mm 195g A-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099453925 ISBN13: 978-0-09-945392-5 ISBN10: 0099453924 x Description: When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to a open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. Unable to parley his skills into a job in aerospace in the US, the house represents an entry into real estate and a passport to the future of his family and his own version of the American Dream. For Kathy, its loss is the last of a series of insults life has dealt her. When she becomes involved with a married policeman who takes up her cause, the stage is set for a gut-wrenching tragedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dud Avocado Elaine Dundy (Author) Rachel Cooke (Introduction by) Series:

Virago Modern Classics

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

26 Aug 1993 (18 Jan 2001)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h132mm x w201mm x s22mm 236g ISBN13: 9781853815812 ISBN13: 978-1-85381-581-2 ISBN10: 1853815810 EAN: 9781853815812 x Description: THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'.Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage.

Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. But an education like this doesn't come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Siege Helen Dunmore (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

30 May 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 216g ISBN13: 9780141000732 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100073-2 ISBN10: 0141000732 EAN: 9780141000732 x Description: Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, THE SIEGE draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive during this terrible winter. It is a story about war and the wounds it inflicts on people's lives. It is also a lyrical and deeply moving celebration of love, life and survival. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Quite Contrary Suzannah Dunn (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Flamingo

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

03 Jun 1992

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 166g ISBN13: 9780006544791 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654479-1 ISBN10: 0006544797 EAN: 9780006544791 x Description: The award-winning debut novel from the author of Venus Flaring and Tenterhooks.

Elizabeth, a young, overworked hospital doctor, gets a phone call from her father late on a Friday night telling her that her mother is dangerously ill. Over the course of the weekend that follows, Elizabeth, on duty as ever and confronting the barely controlled chaos of a busy casualty ward, finds moments to reminisce about her childhood, its joys and its miseries. Past and present are interwoven in a series of vivid tableaux, drawing the reader into an intimate understanding of Elizabeth's life as a whole.

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The Lover (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Marguerite Duras (Author) Series:

Harper Perennial Modern Edition: Classics

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

16 Jan 2006 (26 Feb 2010)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 110g ISBN13: 9780007205004 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720500-4 ISBN10: 0007205007 EAN: 9780007205004 x Description: A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart.

Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society.

A sensational international bestseller, 'The Lover' is disturbing, erotic, masterly and simply unforgettable. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains Susan Elderkin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

02 Mar 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h216mm x w150mm 471g ISBN13: 9781841151991 ISBN13: 978-1-84115-199-1 ISBN10: 1841151998 x Description: Not since Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum has there been such a sparklingly original and exceptional debut by a new writer. Theobald Moon hopes to satiate the yearnings of his hungry soul (and considerable belly) when he leaves south London to start a new life in the Arizona desert. Planting a cactus garden around his mobile home where he can star-gaze and practise yoga, Theo provides a haven of security for his small daughter Josie, weaving around her a gossamer web of fairy stories and belief in an ordered universe. But as his little Jelly-O grows into disaffected adolescence, there are questions she asks which Theo refuses to answer. When the terrible truth emerges, we discover a man whose actions may be reprehensible but who is portrayed with such intelligent humanity that we may find it impossible to condemn him. Bold, quirky and youthful, there is no mistaking Susan Elderkin's voice. Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains is an astonishing debut. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan Jason Elliot (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

08 Sep 2000

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w130mm x s32mm 409g ISBN13: 9780330371629 ISBN13: 978-0-330-37162-9 ISBN10: 0330371622 EAN: 9780330371629 x Description: An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistan was greeted on publication by universal critical acclaim and is now widely acknowledged as the most influential contemporary work of Afghanistan. Written on the eve of 9/11, at the height of Afghanistan's isolation from the world, Jason Elliot's uncannily prescient account of his winter journey through the country torn by civil war is as pertinent today as it was then. Winner of the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award in the UK and a New York Times Bestseller in the USA, it recounts the author's daring and passionate investigation into an extraordinary culture, first as a clandestine guest of the mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation, and ten years later during the

Taleban advance on the besieged capital, Kabul. This new edition of An Unexpected Light is illustrated with the author's photographs and celebrates a classic work of travel literature. `Jason Elliot is that rare traveller who surrenders himself to people and places and this tale is a many-layered reconstruction of his experience . . . I am sure this book will soon be among the classics of travel' DORIS LESSING `An Unexpected Light is often unexpectedly funny and constantly perceptive, but it is also profound' New York Times `What raises the book to the level of a classic is its intensely personal meditation on the magic of unplanned adventure, of the pain and pleasure of pushing into the unknown. The whole book, like Elliot's travels themselves, operated on this heightened level' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fighting Back Cheerleaders Carol Ellis (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Scholastic

Publisher:

Scholastic

Pub Date:

01 Jun 1988

Publishing Status:

Out of stock indefinitely

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 160pp ISBN13: 9780590416283 ISBN13: 978-0-590-41628-3 ISBN10: 0590416286 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Doctors and Nurses Lucy Ellmann (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

05 Feb 2007

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780747585800 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8580-0 ISBN10: 0747585806 x Description: The tranquillity of a rural backwater - SHATTERED! The ancient arts of medicine - EXPOSED! Her darling cleft-chinned doctor FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE! It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands up for LOVE - a nurse that will make you fart with fear... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dead Famous Ben Elton (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jul 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback h179mm x w108mm x s23mm 190g ISBN13: 9780552149020 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14902-0 ISBN10: 0552149020 x Description: One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest. Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex and with whom? Who will the public love and who will they hate? All the usual questions. And then, suddenly, there are some new ones. Who is the murderer?

How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Figures in a Landscape Barry England (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

House of Stratus

Publisher:

House of Stratus

Pub Date:

01 Sep 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback h205mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9780755103188 ISBN13: 978-0-7551-0318-8 ISBN10: 0755103181 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Swift as Desire Laura Esquivel (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Corgi Books

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Sep 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp ISBN13: 9780552150293 ISBN13: 978-0-552-15029-3 ISBN10: 0552150290 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hausfrau Jill Alexander Essbaum (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

07 Apr 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w130mm x s22mm 241g ISBN13: 9781447280811 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-8081-1 ISBN10: 1447280814 EAN: 9781447280811 x Description: Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum. 'The Book that will have everyone talking' CosmopolitanAnna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno - a banker - and their three young children, in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zurich.Though she leads a comfortable life, she is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with Bruno, or even her own feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises her.But she soon finds that she can't easily extract herself from these relationships. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Diana Evans (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

07 Mar 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 245g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784707248 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-724-8 ISBN10: 1784707244 EAN: 9781784707248 x Description: **WINNER OF THE SOUTH BANK SKY ARTS AWARD**'Diana is so amazing when it comes to writing about humans and relationships... about how we change, grow, and fall away from each other... I don't know anyone who's as skilled as her' Candice Carty-Williams, Oprah MagazineTwo couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her. Damian has lost his father and intends not to let it get to him. Michael is still in love with Melissa but can't quite get close enough to her to stay faithful. Stephanie just wants to live a normal, happy life on the commuter belt with Damian and their three children but his bereavement is getting in the way.Set in London to an exhilarating soundtrack, Ordinary People is an intimate study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, friendship and ageing, and the fragile architecture of love.'Diana Evans's fiction is emotionally intelligent, dark, funny, moving. The sheer energy in her novels is enthralling' Jackie Kay'I am shouting from the rooftops to anyone who will listen about this book. It's so so good - realistic and funny and so truthful it almost winded me' Dolly Alderton'I just finished Ordinary People by Diana Evans and it is utterly exquisite. What a writer she is - the depth of her insight, the grace of her sentences. WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING ALL THIS TIME NOT READING HER?' Elizabeth Day, Twitter _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Divide Nicholas Evans (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sphere

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

25 Jul 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h132mm x w200mm x s30mm 308g ISBN13: 9780751539349 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3934-9 ISBN10: 0751539341 EAN: 9780751539349 x Description: Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and her picture is on law enforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 Bernardine Evaristo (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

03 Mar 2020

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 321g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241984994 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98499-4 ISBN10: 0241984998 EAN: 9780241984994 x Description: Give the gift of joy and hope with Booker Prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER'The most absorbing book I read all year.' Roxane Gay ____________________________This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .____________________________'[Bernardine Evaristo] is one of the very best that we have' Nikesh Shukla on Twitter'A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain' Elle'Beautifully interwoven stories of identity, race, womanhood, and the realities of modern Britain. The characters are so vivid, the writing is beautiful and it brims with humanity' Nicola Sturgeon on Twitter'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Smith, author of How to be both'Exceptional. You have to order it right now' Stylist'Sparkling, inventive' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Family Orchard Nomi Eve (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

07 Mar 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w126mm x s22mm 270g ISBN13: 9781860499234 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-923-4 ISBN10: 1860499236 EAN: 9781860499234 x Description: A beautifully crafted story of a Jewish family, reaching back five generations. Using births, deaths and family legends, here are stories of how people meet and fall in love, of family secrets and tragedies, of sex and marriage. Yochanan and his wife Esther who lived happily despite Esther's long-time affair with the local baker; Avra who has a penchant for stealing (and returning) who marries Shimon, an immigrant from Russia; Miriam, a child of Eastern Europe who sews her family's futures into her cloth. Shyly sexy and funny, always rooted in the domestic and the familiar, this is an enchanting, complex novel which draws on the voices of many generations from far and wide, reaching across the Diaspora - Israel, Europe and America. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Some Rain Must Fall And Other Stories Michel Faber (Author) Series:

Canons

Edition:

Main - Canons Edition

Imprint:

Canongate Canons

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

07 Jul 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 191g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781782117162 ISBN13: 978-1-78211-716-2 ISBN10: 1782117164 EAN: 9781782117162 This Product Replaces: 9781841950716

x Description: The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things.

Michel Faber's short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. 'Some Rain Must Fall' juxtaposes the tragic circumstances of traumatised schoolchildren with the interior monologue of a teacher/psychologist enlisted to aid their recovery. In the pseudo-sci-fi 'Fish' a mother tries to protect her child in a terrifying world where fish swim through the streets and lurk in alleyways. Faber's collection is rich and assured, with a dazzling reach. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

My Name Is Salma Fadia Faqir (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

07 Apr 2008

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h200mm x w130mm x s23mm 224g ISBN13: 9780552773621 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77362-1 ISBN10: 055277362X EAN: 9780552773621 x Description: When Salma becomes pregnant before marriage in her small village in the Levant, her innocent days playing the pipe for her goats are gone for ever. She is swept into prison for her own protection. To the sound of her screams, her newborn baby daughter is snatched away. In the middle of the most English of towns, Exeter, she learns good manners from her landlady, and settles down with an Englishman. But deep in her heart the cries of her baby daughter still echo. When she can bear them no longer, she goes back to her village to find her. It is a journey that will change everything - and nothing. Slipping back and forth between the olive groves of the Levant and the rain-slicked pavements of Exeter, "My Name is Salma" is a searing portrayal of a woman's courage in the face of insurmountable odds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Young Turk: A Novel in 13 Fragments Moris Farhi (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Saqi Books

Publisher:

Saqi Books

Pub Date:

16 Feb 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 360pp h210mm x w140mm 424g ISBN13: 9780863563515 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-351-5 ISBN10: 0863563511 x Description: Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. An alluring woman initiates Mustafa and his classmates in the carnal delights of rose petal jam; Musa discovers the hard facts of reaching manhood when he is expelled from the women's baths; Bilal, a 14-year-old Jewish boy, sets off for Greece to rescue his mother's sister; and a circus orphan known only as 'Girl' falls head over heels for the new trapeze artist ...Young Turk is a novel in thirteen positions. Reminiscent of Julio Cortazar and Italo Calvino, this is a wise, craftily spun and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage and the forging of conscience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Soldier's Pay William Faulkner (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Oct 2000 (06 Aug 2015)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 234g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099282822 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928282-2 ISBN10: 0099282828 EAN: 9780099282822 x Description: A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancee who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with lives blighted by war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

On Green Dolphin Street Sebastian Faulks (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Minerva

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 May 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h178mm x w110mm x s20mm 185g ISBN13: 9780099436935 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943693-5 ISBN10: 0099436930 EAN: 9780099436935 x Description: America, 1959. with two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. An American newspaper reporter called Frank Renzo dramatically enters the van der Linden's lives, and through him Mary is forced to confront the terror of the Cold War that is the dark background of their carefree existence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next Book 6 Jasper Fforde (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

10 Nov 2011

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h177mm x w116mm x s28mm 218g Yes ISBN13: 9780340963104 ISBN13: 978-0-340-96310-4 ISBN10: 0340963107 EAN: 9780340963104 x Description: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake.The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years Helen Fielding (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

20 Jun 2013

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 752pp h197mm x w130mm x s46mm 530g ISBN13: 9781447243021 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-4302-1 ISBN10: 1447243021 EAN: 9781447243021 x Description: A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?Two diaries, two enduring bestsellers, one unforgettable character. Bridget Jones: The Singleton Years brings together Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason. Helen Fielding portrays Bridget, everyone's favourite spinster, as she struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question: Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy? She is supported through the whole process by four indispensable friends, Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of Chardonnay.Bridget Jones's Diary was first published in 1996 and applauded by critics from Salman Rushdie to Jilly Cooper. A number-one bestseller, Helen Fielding's book has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide and has been turned into an Academy Award-nominated film series starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Helen Fielding (Author) Series:

Bridget Jones's Diary

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Apr 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 318g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099584438 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958443-8 ISBN10: 0099584433 EAN: 9780099584438 x Description: Celebrate twenty-five years of Britain's favourite singleton with this laugh-out-loud number one bestseller. Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen's day? Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and redisovering her sexuality in what SOME people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, witty, wise and bloody hilarious. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination Helen Fielding (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

04 Jun 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 183g ISBN13: 9780330434089 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43408-9 ISBN10: 033043408X EAN: 9780330434089 This Product is Replaced By: 9780330432740 x Description: From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of terror armed only with a hatpin, razor sharp wits and a very special underwired bra. How could a girl not be drawn to the alluring, powerful Pierre Ferramo, with his hooded eyes, impeccable taste, unimaginable wealth, exotic homes across the globe and a rather dubious French accent? But is it possible that Ferramo is actually a major terrorist, bent on the western world's destruction? Or is it all just a product of Olivia Joules's overactive imagination? Join Olivia in her heart-stopping and hilarious quest to save the world in this witty, contemporary and utterly

unputdownable thriller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Flamingo

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

28 Sep 1988

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 138g ISBN13: 9780006542568 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654256-8 ISBN10: 0006542565 EAN: 9780006542568 This Product is Replaced By: 9780007320967 x Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set among the houseboat community of the Thames. `Offshore' is a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither...

Maurice, a male prostitute, is the sympathetic friend to whom all the others turn. Nenna loves her husband but can't get him back; her children run wild on the muddy foreshore. She feels drawn to Richard, the ex-RNVR city man whose converted minesweeper dominates the Reach. Is he sexually attractive because he can fold maps the right way? With this and other questions waiting to be answered, `Offshore' offers a delightful glimpse of the workings of an eccentric community. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald (Author) Hollinghurst (Introduction by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

20 Aug 2009 (07 Nov 2013)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007320967 ISBN13: 978-0-00-732096-7 ISBN10: 0007320965 EAN: 9780007320967 x Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.

On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames.

There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Code to Zero Ken Follett (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

08 Jun 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 480pp h178mm x w111mm x s30mm 261g ISBN13: 9780330482868 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48286-8 ISBN10: 0330482866 EAN: 9780330482868 x

Description: Three days that could change the world's political landscape . . . A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there. He does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out, it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems . . . The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite, in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral. And as he relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets about his wife, his best friend and the woman he once loved more than life itself... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Passage to India E. M. Forster (Author) Oliver Stallybrass (Introduction and notes by) Series:

Penguin Modern Classics Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

25 May 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w135mm x s17mm 264g ISBN13: 9780141183107 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118310-7 ISBN10: 0141183101 x Description: After a mysterious accident during their visit to the caves, Dr Assiz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Calculating Heart Caro Fraser (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Feb 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h201mm x w130mm x s23mm 238g ISBN13: 9780141008240 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100824-0 ISBN10: 0141008245 x Description: 'I find it rather exciting joining a new set of chambers, like starting a new school term...'. 5 Caper Court is changing. The chambers are expanding. But, will the arrival of a fresh group of tenants inspire a new start for everyone? Just out of yet another scandal, electrifying and libidinous Leo Davis has finally decided to settle down. He's going to sell up his Belgravia pad and buy a family home for his son, Oliver. And, he's going to marry the lovely Camilla. Or is he? With Camilla working on a case halfway across the world, Leo is not so sure...Adriana, the stunning, glamorous and extremely wealthy owner of a multi-million pound Greek shipping line, has elected Leo as her lawyer. She knows he can win her case. Insatiable Adriana always gets what she wants and she is about to make Leo an offer he'll find hard to refuse. As the City steams in the sweltering August heatwave, temptation begins to ensnare the inhabitants of 5 Caper Court. The question is, who will fall captive to whose charms and who will be able to resist? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thirteen Moons Charles Frazier (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

01 Nov 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp h235mm x w155mm x s35mm 570g n/a ISBN13: 9780340826621 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82662-1 ISBN10: 0340826622 EAN: 9780340826621

x Description: At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins - for a brief moment - a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians, including a Cherokee Chief named Bear, he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassle Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee's homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that 'only desire trumps time'. Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man's passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man's destiny over the many moons of a life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Hostile Place/Monkey House 2 for the price of 1shrinkwrap Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

06 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Shrink-wrapped pack h178mm x w221mm x s22mm 351g Contains 2 Paperback / softbacks ISBN13: 9780330435499 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43549-9 ISBN10: 0330435493 EAN: 9780330435499 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Blowback Eric Fullilove (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

09 Aug 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s25mm 209g ISBN13: 9780330490993 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49099-3 ISBN10: 0330490990 EAN: 9780330490993 x Description: As on India's border a weapon of mass destruction is released, far away in Washington DC a well-dressed man in a Porsche is detained by plain-clothed cops, and a killer waits in a dark hallway for a beautiful woman to return home. Richard Whelan, the President's security adviser, is tough, smart - and black. He knows how to play White House political games, but is about to get a refresher course when framed for a brutal murder.

Whelan is suddenly a fugitive on the run, a pawn in a chilling conspiracy, yet the only man able to prevent a nuclear holocaust. If only he can stay alive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Night of the Lions Kuki Gallmann (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

24 Feb 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h199mm x w137mm x s16mm 178g 8pp b&w illustrations ISBN13: 9780140278965 ISBN13: 978-0-14-027896-5 ISBN10: 0140278966 x Description: Originally published in 1999 by Viking, an illustrated collection of stories about the African land and people, written by the author of AFRICAN NIGHTS and I DREAMED OF AFRICA. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

God On The Rocks Jane Gardam (Author) Series:

Abacus Books

Edition:

Imprint:

Abacus

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

01 Jan 1988

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w126mm x s15mm 190g ISBN13: 9780349114064 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11406-4 ISBN10: 0349114064 EAN: 9780349114064 This Product is Replaced By: 9780349121499 x Description: During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine of the unsavoury Primal Saints; her mother, bitterly nostalgic for what might have been; Charles and Binkie, anchored in the past and a game of words; dying Mrs Frayling and Lydia the maid, given to the vulgar enjoyment of life; all contribute to Margaret's shattering moment of truth. And when the storm breaks, it is not only God who is on the rocks as the summer hurtles towards drama, tragedy, and a touch of farce. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Headcrusher Aleksei Evdokimo (Author) Alexander Garros (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Feb 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h197mm x w130mm x s22mm 225g ISBN13: 9780099474722 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947472-2 ISBN10: 0099474727 EAN: 9780099474722 x Description: Vadim's having a tough time adjusting to capitalism. The grey, slushy Latvia he knows has not been the same since Euro-bypass surgery revived its economy. Everywhere he looks, designer-clad clones are hanging out in chic bars and driving expensive cars. His only escape is into the virtual world of the super-sophisticated computer game 'Headcrusher' where he can blast people away to his heart's content. Until, that is, he takes a blunt implement to his boss's real head and embarks on a killing spree that leads him to the limits of reality...

Fast, furious and wicked fun, this is Russia's Fight Club and American Psycho rolled into one. Its high-octane combination of spoof and satire, humour and violence make it the most exciting novel to come out of the ex-USSR in a very long time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wish You Were Here Mike Gayle (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

10 Jul 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 286g n/a ISBN13: 9780340825426 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82542-6 ISBN10: 0340825421 EAN: 9780340825426 x Description: A brilliant romantic comedy exploring beach basics for the broken-hearted from number one bestselling author Mike Gayle.Their holiday brochure said 18-30 . . . But they've just turned 35.After ten years together Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his live-in girlfriend, Sarah. All he wants to do is wallow in misery, but mates Andy and Tom have a better idea: a week of sun, sea and souvlaki in Malia, party capital of the Greek islands.But Charlie and his mates aren't eighteen any more. Or even under thirty. And it shows.It isn't the cheap beer, the late nights or even the fast-

food that's the problem. It's girls. And life. And most of all . . . each other. WISH YOU WERE HERE is a heart-warming, funny and wise tale about love and friendship and how seven days in the sun can change your life forever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Flood Maggie Gee (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Saqi Books

Publisher:

Saqi Books

Pub Date:

11 Feb 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 328pp h195mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9780863565120 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-512-0 ISBN10: 0863565123 x Description: President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods.

The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical 'Last Days' sect is recruiting thousands ...

When at last the sun breaks through the clouds Lottie heads off to the opera, husband Harold listens to jazz and their ditsy teenage daughter Lola fights capitalism by bunking off school. Shirley takes her twin boys to the zoo. The Government - eager to detract attention from a foreign war it has waged - announces a spectacular City Gala. But not even TV astrologer Davey Lucas can predict the extraordinary climax that ensues. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The White Family Maggie Gee (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Saqi Books

Publisher:

Saqi Books

Pub Date:

07 Aug 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 345pp h198mm x w129mm 337g ISBN13: 9780863561405 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-140-5 ISBN10: 0863561403 x Description: The Whites are an ordinary British family: love, hatred, sex and death hold them together, and tear them apart. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Alfred White, a London park keeper, still rules his home with fierce conviction and inarticulate tenderness. May, his clever, passive wife, loves Alfred but conspires against him. Their three children are no longer close; the successful elder son, Darren, has escaped to the USA. When Alfred collapses on duty, his beautiful, childless daughter Shirley, who lives with Leroy, a black social worker, is brought face to face with Alfred's younger son Dirk, who hates and fears all black people. The scene is set for violence. In the end Alfred and May are forced to make a climactic decision: does justice matter more than kinship? This ambitious, groundbreaking novel takes on the taboo subject of racial hatred as it looks for the roots of violence within the family and within British society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George (Author) Simon Pare (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Abacus

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

22 Dec 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h130mm x w199mm x s26mm 304g ISBN13: 9780349140377 ISBN13: 978-0-349-14037-7 ISBN10: 0349140375 EAN: 9780349140377 x Description: The international bestseller, translated from the German by Simon Pare.On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; or rather a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, when the love of his life fled Paris, leaving behind a handwritten letter that he has never dared read. His memories and his love have been gathering dust until now. The arrival of an enigmatic new neighbour in his eccentric apartment building on Rue Montagnard inspires Jean to unlock his heart, unmoor the floating bookshop and set off for Provence, in search of the past and his beloved. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Theseus Andre Gide (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hesperus Press Ltd

Publisher:

Hesperus Press Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Nov 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s8mm 160g ISBN13: 9781843910275 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-027-5 ISBN10: 1843910276 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Honour Thy Father Lesley Glaister (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

21 Jan 1999

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm 140g ISBN13: 9780747542056 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-4205-6 ISBN10: 0747542058 x Description: In a remote, crumbling house in the Fens live four sisters - Agatha, Milly, and Ellen and Esther, identical twins so closely linked as to be almost one person. They have lived there all their lives, trapped still by the fear of their dead father, who governs his daughters' lives from beyond the grave. And then there is George, another inhabitant, imprisoned in the cellar. Bit by bit macabre events come to light; events that transformed an idyllic country childhood into a world of eccentric isolation.

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Bee Season Myla Goldberg (Author) Series:

Edition:

Media tie-in

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

07 Nov 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h197mm x w130mm 195g ISBN13: 9780007204939 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720493-9 ISBN10: 0007204930 x Description: The tie-in edition to the new film starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche. Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable eleven-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her father, Saul, absorbed in his study of mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer mother, Miriam. But when Eliza discovers an aptitude for competitive spelling, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality, Saul ushers her into his hallowed study and lavishes upon her the attention previously reserved for Aaron, who in his displacement embarks on a lone quest for spiritual fulfilment that leads him to the Hare Krishna. And when the unveiling of Miriam's secret life triggers an almighty explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos. Not merely a coming-of-age story, Myla Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unravelling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity.

The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented American writer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Say Her Name Francisco Goldman (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Publisher:

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Pub Date:

01 Apr 2012

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 350g ISBN13: 9781611855944 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-594-4 ISBN10: 1611855942 EAN: 9781611855944 x Description: Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. But instead he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain. Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe-and always through the prism of her gifted writings-Goldman seeks her essence and grieves her loss. Humour leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of utter grief and creates a living portrait of a love as joyous and playful as it is deep and profound. Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura-who she was and who she would have been. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock: the absolutely spellbinding Sunday Times top ten bestselling historical fiction phenomenon Imogen Hermes Gowar (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

24 Jan 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s129mm 391g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784705992 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-599-2 ISBN10: 1784705993 EAN: 9781784705992 x Description: 'A cracking historical novel - with a twinge of the surreal - about passion and obsession' The TimesSHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep.

He has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid.As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see Mr Hancock's marvel. Its arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence and through the doors of high society, where he meets Angelica Neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on... and a courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course.What will be the cost of their ambitions? And will they be able to escape the legendary destructive power a mermaid is said to possess? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Innocent - a Format Export Only Posie Graeme-Evans (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

14 Mar 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h25mm x w111mm x s176mm 217g ISBN13: 9780340895146 ISBN13: 978-0-340-89514-6 ISBN10: 0340895144 x Description: The story begins in 1450, when civil unrest sweeps England and the struggle for the crown is at its peak. Deep in a western forest, a baby is born. Powerful forces plot to kill both mother and child, but somehow the newborn girl survives. Her name is Anne. Fifteen years later, England has a charismatic young king, Edward IV, and the country has begun to wake from the nightmare of the War of the Roses. When Anne is brought to London to be a servant in the household of a wealthy merchant, her unusual beauty soon provokes jealousy, lust and intrigue. But Anne has one special quality that saves her: her knowledge of herbs and healing. News of her remarkable gift spreads and she is brought to save the life of Edward's ailing queen. And so Anne comes to live in the royal palace, and it is here she finds her destiny: to be loved by the king himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dog Years Gunter Grass (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

21 Jul 1997

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 426g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780749394509 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-9450-9 ISBN10: 0749394501 EAN: 9780749394509 x Description: In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself with the chaos of disintegration.

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The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

07 Oct 2004 (05 Dec 2019)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 232g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099478423 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947842-3 ISBN10: 0099478420 EAN: 9780099478423 x Description: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sight: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Jessie Greengrass (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Pub Date:

08 Jan 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g ISBN13: 9781473652392 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-5239-2 ISBN10: 1473652391 EAN: 9781473652392 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019'A stunning debut' GuardianIn Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies.Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

White Ghost Girls Alice Greenway (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

13 Jul 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h197mm x w130mm x s14mm 193g ISBN13: 9781843544401 ISBN13: 978-1-84354-440-1 ISBN10: 1843544407 EAN: 9781843544401 x

Description: Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction'Beautifully imagined... An extremely elegant, as well as visually arresting, first novel.' -- Daily MailTwo sisters grow together and apart into their emerging selves. Frankie pulses with curiosity and risk; Kate is watchful, all eyes and ears.

Immersed in the heat and colours of Hong Kong in the 1960s, theirs is a world of fishermen and insurgents, temple gods and ghosts, of blinding light and dark, dark waters. As Frankie's behaviour becomes more and more outrageous in her defiant attempt to win her parents' attention, Kate retreats into a quiet desperation, unable to act to save the soul for whom she would sacrifice everything - Frankie. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When All is Said: Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. Anne Griffin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

27 Jun 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h197mm x w130mm x s18mm 222g ISBN13: 9781473683020 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-8302-0 ISBN10: 1473683025 EAN: 9781473683020 x Description: Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2020'This is how you tell a story' Cecelia Ahern'An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears.' John Boyne'I'm here to remember - all that I have been and all that I will never be again.'At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual -though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is finally ready to tell his story.Over the course of this evening, he will raise five toasts to the five people who have meant the most to him. Through these stories - of unspoken joy and regret, a secret tragedy kept hidden, a fierce love that never found its voice - the life of one man will be powerfully and poignantly laid bare. Heart-breaking and heart-warming all at once, the voice of Maurice Hannigan will stay with you long after all is said.'A hugely enjoyable, engrossing novel, a genuine page-turner.' Donal Ryan'Beautifully written, unhurried and thoughtful, and a character you love from the off' Kit de Waal'Masterful storytelling' Graham Norton _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Reef Romesh Gunesekera (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Granta Books

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

19 Feb 1998

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h197mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781862070943 ISBN13: 978-1-86207-094-3 ISBN10: 1862070946 EAN: 9781862070943 x Description: Reef is a love story set in a spoiled paradise. It is told by Trtion, who at the age of eleven goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing reef. Triton learns to polish silver; to mix a love cake with ten eggs, creamed butter and fresh cashew nuts; and to steam the exotic parrot fish for his master's lover. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: (Vintage Voyages) Xiaolu Guo (Author) Series:

Vintage Voyages

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

06 Jun 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 293g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784875312 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-531-2 ISBN10: 1784875317 EAN: 9781784875312 x Description: A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love, language and identity.Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain...VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

03 Feb 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm x s14mm 185g ISBN13: 9780140233117 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023311-7 ISBN10: 0140233113 x Description: Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker and Whitbread Prizes, this book is set in the decade before World War I, in the garden of a merchant's house on the coast of East Africa. Yusuf is 12 when he is sold into the service of the rich, perfumed merchant whom he has always known as "uncle" Aziz. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Our Lady of the Forest David Guterson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export and UK open market ed

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

27 Jul 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747574460 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-7446-0 ISBN10: 0747574464 x Description: Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. Her past has been hardscrabble. Then one November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Is this delusion, a product of her occasional drug use, or a true calling to God? Gradually word spreads, and thousands converge upon the already troubled town. For Tom Cross, an embittered logger who's been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, the possibility that Ann's visions are real offers a last chance for him and his son. As Father Collins searches both his own soul and Ann's; as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions; as Tom alternates between despair and hope; "Our Lady of the Foreset" combines suspense, grit and humour in a story of faith at a contemporary crossroad. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bad Dreams and Other Stories Tessa Hadley (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

25 Jan 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784704049 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-404-9 ISBN10: 1784704040 EAN: 9781784704049 x Description: The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day.**WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE**Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past.

A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is made extraordinary and the real things that happen to people turn out to be every bit as mysterious as their dreams.'These well-turned, exceptionally nuanced pieces are solidly evocative of place, period...and sensory detail' Sunday Times'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie Smith _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Short History Of A Prince Jane Hamilton (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Apr 1999

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp 283g ISBN13: 9780552998017 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99801-7 ISBN10: 055299801X EAN: 9780552998017 x Description: Walter McCloud was constantly eclipsed by those around him - his beautiful, talented friends, his flamboyant relatives, his golden-boy brother, Daniel. He was always the outsider, never the star. But the summer of 1972 was a turning point in the life of fifteen-year-old Walter. It was the time when he realized that his great passion for dance would never be matched by his talent; the time when he discovered the funny agony of first love' and the time when he watched his brother declining into a cruel, untimely death. It is only when, twenty-four years later, Walter returns to fight for the survival of his childhood Eden, his family's lakeside summer home, that he finally discovers a way to reconcile himself to the past in a way that gives hope for the future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Cooking With Fernet Branca James Hamilton-Paterson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

03 Mar 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h177mm x w111mm x s19mm 176g ISBN13: 9780571227068 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22706-8 ISBN10: 0571227066 EAN: 9780571227068 This Product Replaces: 9780571220915 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004 Cooking with Fernet Branca is a gleefully tasteless bad dream of modern Italy, told through the eyes of Gerald Samper - effete Englishman, culinary adventurer, and ghostwriter to the stars.

'Wickedly witty . . . Anyone who does not add this hilarious divertimento to their summer reading list should be put on a forced diet of Gerald's inimitable Alien Pie.' Michael Dibdin,Guardian 'A deliciously nasty farce set in [Hamilton-Paterson's] adopted Tuscany . . . Cooking with Fernet Branca had me laughing out loud and uproariously. All Tuscanites should read it, preferably over a plate of stewed otter chunks in lobster sauce.' Sunday Telegraph 'Larded with bitter satire and piquant wit, at the expense, often, of its readers and their dreams of Italy . . . I laughed out loud several times a chapter.'

The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Eros Island Tony Hanania (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

22 Jan 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h196mm x w129mm 150g ISBN13: 9780747552123 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-5212-3 ISBN10: 0747552126 x Description: As his father remains a recluse on a Spanish island, the narrator struggles to reconcile the slowly revealed secrets of his family's past in the Middle East with the decadence, artifice and egotism of his friends, the gay hedonist Reaper, the actress Rose Lovell and the famous artist Foley. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Homesick Tony Hanania (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

08 Jan 1998

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w130mm 209g ISBN13: 9780747534976 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-3497-6 ISBN10: 0747534977 x Description: Banished from the sheltered idyll of his Beirut childhood, Toby Shadrach struggles to adapt to the treacherous new realities of a British boarding school. He begins to see a similar pattern of ritual and wild crazes between the school and the sectarian violence of the Middle East. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Unreal City Tony Hanania (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

17 Apr 2000

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h197mm x w128mm 250g Maps ISBN13: 9780747545781 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-4578-1 ISBN10: 0747545782 x Description: Born into one of the feudal families of the Lebanon mountains and educated in the west, the anonymous narrator returns to ruins, haunted by memories of his country's fractured past, to search for the mistress who betrayed him in his youth. He seeks final redemption in the cult of Shia Islam. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Sort of Books

Publisher:

Sort of Books

Pub Date:

22 Feb 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w130mm x s21mm 318g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9780954899547 ISBN13: 978-0-9548995-4-7 ISBN10: 0954899547 EAN: 9780954899547 x Description: Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man's house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family's holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerised by two children in a school playground, children she's never met but whose names she knows well? And which secret results in a former literary festival director sorting soiled laundry in a shabby hotel? All will be revealed...but at a cost. As Sophie Hannah uncovers the dark obsessions and strange longings behind the most ordinary relationships, life will never seem quite the same again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Other Half Lives: Culver Valley Crime Book 4 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:

Culver Valley Crime

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

03 Sep 2009 (22 Oct 2015)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h197mm x w130mm x s36mm 404g none ISBN13: 9780340933152 ISBN13: 978-0-340-93315-2 ISBN10: 0340933151 EAN: 9780340933152 x Description: The fourth psychological suspense novel from the phenomenal word-of-mouth bestselling Sophie Hannah. A must-read for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins. 'Utterly gripping' The Times'Thrilling' Sunday TelegraphWhy would anyone confess to a murder that never happened?Ruth Bussey knows what it means to be in the wrong and to be wronged. She once did something she regrets, and her punishment nearly destroyed her. Now Ruth is rebuilding her life, and has found a love she doesn't believe she deserves: Aidan Seed. Aidan is also troubled by a past he hates to talk about, until one day he decides he must confide in Ruth. He tells her that years ago he killed someone: a woman called Mary Trelease.Ruth is confused. She's certain she's heard the name before, and when she realises why it sounds familiar, her fear and confusion deepen because the Mary Trelease that Ruth knows is very much alive . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Birdman and the Lapdancer Eric Hansen (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Methuen Publishing Ltd

Publisher:

Methuen Publishing Ltd

Pub Date:

07 Jun 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp ISBN13: 9780413774996 ISBN13: 978-0-413-77499-6 ISBN10: 0413774996 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Ghost Robert Harris (Author) Series:

Edition:

Film Tie-In

Imprint:

Arrow Books Ltd

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

04 Mar 2010

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 299g ISBN13: 9780099525127 ISBN13: 978-0-09-952512-7 ISBN10: 0099525127 EAN: 9780099525127 x Description: 'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...'

The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour.

Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister, especially as it means flying to the American resort of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of winter and finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious house.

But it doesn't take him long to realise he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in circumstances that were distinctly suspicious, and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill.

The Times has called Robert Harris 'the leading current exponent of the intelligent literary thriller'. The Ghost is his most compelling novel yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Pieces of Me: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018 Natalie Hart (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Legend Press Ltd

Publisher:

Legend Press Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Oct 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h1980mm x w1290mm 40g ISBN13: 9781787198036 ISBN13: 978-1-78719-803-6 ISBN10: 1787198030 EAN: 9781787198036 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Notes on a Scandal Zoe Heller (Author) Series:

Edition:

Media tie-in

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

05 Jan 2007

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g ISBN13: 9780141029061 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102906-1 ISBN10: 0141029064 EAN: 9780141029061 x Description: Film tie-in edition of Zoe Heller's darkly compelling Booker shortlisted novel. The film of Notes on a Scandal received four Oscar nominations and stars Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench.

From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara's loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered having an illicit affair with one of her pupils, Barbara quickly elects herself as Sheba's chief defender. But all is not as it first seems in this dark story and, as Sheba will soon discover, a friend can be just as treacherous as any lover.

'Brilliant, nasty, gripping' Zadie Smith 'Compelling, dark, sexy' Observer 'Superbly gripping. One of the most compelling books I've read in ages' Daily Telegraph 'Deliciously sinister' Daily Mail

Zoe Heller is the author of three novels, Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and The Believers. The 2006 film adaptation of Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, received four Oscar nominations. She lives in New York. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Other Lulus Philip Hensher (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Flamingo

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

16 Jun 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 187g ISBN13: 9780007152414 ISBN13: 978-0-00-715241-4 ISBN10: 0007152418 EAN: 9780007152414 x Description: A beautifully crafted tale of the loves, lust and lies of a young Viennese opera singer.

When young singer Friederike marries English music-seller Archy he claims to have discovered the lost last act of Alban Berg's opera `Lulu'.

What emerges is a story of music, lying, marriage and cooking set against the backdrop of contemporary Vienna. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Cold Eye of Heaven Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author) (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

01 Jun 2012

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h197mm x w130mm x s15mm 195g ISBN13: 9781843549901 ISBN13: 978-1-84354-990-1 ISBN10: 1843549905 EAN: 9781843549901 x Description: Farley is dying and we are by his side. As his mind begins to move back over his 75 years, Farley takes us into his past and with the comic wit of a true Dubliner unravels his life - its loves, its losses and its betrayals - right in front of our eyes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Last Train from Liguria Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author) (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

01 Apr 2010

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 369g ISBN13: 9781843549888 ISBN13: 978-1-84354-988-8 ISBN10: 1843549883 EAN: 9781843549888

x Description: In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family's summer home, Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, and find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher.But as the decade draws to an end and fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella and Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy - one they have no reason to believe any of them will survive... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tatty Christine Dwyer Hicks (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

06 Jul 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 160g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099499350 ISBN13: 978-0-09-949935-0 ISBN10: 0099499355 EAN: 9780099499350 x Description: Hailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl.With brutal honesty, Tatty tells the story of her life with her beloved, feckless Dad, her tormented Mam, her five siblings and the booze that brings them down. This not just an entertaining tale, but also a heartbreaking account of a disturbed childhood that makes for compulsive reading. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Lives of Women Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author) (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

07 Jan 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w128mm x s19mm 215g ISBN13: 9781782390077 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-007-7 ISBN10: 1782390073 EAN: 9781782390077 x Description: The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria.'One of Ireland's most lauded modern writers, Christine Dwyer Hickey teases out the strands of her story... It leaves the reader with the aftertaste of regret for their own what might have been...' - Daily MailFollowing a long absence spent in New York, Elaine Nichols returns to her childhood home to live with her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog. The house backing on to theirs is sold and as she watches the old furniture stack up on the lawn, Elaine is brought back to a summer in the 1970s. She is almost sixteen again and this small out-of-town estate is an enclave for women and children while the men are mysterious shadows who leave every day for the outside world. The women are isolated but keep their loneliness and frustrations hidden behind a veneer of suburban respectability. When an American divorcee and her daughter move into the estate, the veneer begins to crack. The women learn how to socialise, how to drink martinis in the afternoon, how to care less about their wifely and maternal duties. While the women are distracted, Elaine and her friends find their own entry into the adult world and the result is a tragic event that will mark the rest of Elaine's life and be the cause of her long and guilt-ridden exile.Insightful and full of suspense, this is an uncompromising portrayal of the suburbs and the cruelties brought about by the demands of respectability. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Man Alive: A blisteringly funny novel of family and parenting Dave Hill (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Book Publishing Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2004

Active

Publishing Status:

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w126mm x s22mm 240g None ISBN13: 9780755301904 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0190-4 ISBN10: 0755301900 EAN: 9780755301904 x Description: Continuing the themes of family and fatherhood, Man Alive explores what happens when children leave home and their parents want to redefine themselves. Derek Hawker is getting on a bit but he's a good and successful chap. He has provided for his children, been faithful to his wife and as a visionary manager with the vast Bluelake retail mall he's at the peak of his career. But surely there is more to life than his half-baked, bitesized chunk? Meanwhile his wife has gone off travelling around the world for a year off being a mother, and their two late-teen children are rebelling against their parent's values. Man Alive is a novel about teen wars, teenage angst and parents who refuse to grow old gracefully. It is warm, witty, insightful, humane and very funny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines (Author) Series:

Penguin Modern Classics Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

25 May 2000

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141184982 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118498-2 ISBN10: 0141184981 EAN: 9780141184982 x Description: With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk.

Billy identifies with her silent strength and she inspires in him the trust and love that nothing else can, discovering through her the passion missing from his life. Barry Hines's acclaimed novel continues to reach new generations of teenagers and adults with its powerful story of survival in a tough, joyless world.Ken Loach's renowned film adaptation, Kes, has achieved cult status and in his new afterword Barry Hines discusses his work to adapt the novel into a screenplay, and reappraises the legacy of a book that has become a popular classic.Barry Hines (b. 1939) was born in the mining village of Hoyland Common, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Leaving Ecclesfield Grammar School without any qualifications, Hines worked as an apprentice mining surveyor for the National Coal Board before entering Loughborough Training College to study Physical Education. Working as a teacher in Hoyland Common, he wrote novels in the school library after work, later turning to writing full-time.If you enjoyed A Kestrel for a Knave, you might like The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London, published in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When I Forgot Elina Hirvonen (Author) Douglas Robinson (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Granta Books

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

01 Aug 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h197mm x w130mm x s13mm 138g ISBN13: 9781846270956 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-095-6 ISBN10: 1846270952 EAN: 9781846270956 x Description: Anna is on her way to the hospital where her brother has been sectioned when she falters, and, in that pause, her world splinters for the reader into a blazing display of memory and madness, of childhood security treasured and shattered, and of families blighted by psychological trauma her brother's and that of her boyfriend's father, a Vietnam veteran. But, in Elina Hirvonen's skilful hands, the grimness is illuminated by firecracker insight and flashes of surprising beauty. And, above all, there is hope.

This is an astonishingly assured and compelling debut novel about the love siblings have for each other, the past they share and the painful memories that shape their lives for ever. This title will especially delight readers of Andrea Ashworth, Maggie O'Farrell, Ali Smith, Kate Atkinson and Vendela Vida. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Cartes Postales from Greece: The runaway Sunday Times bestseller Victoria Hislop (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

10 Aug 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h196mm x w128mm x s34mm 360g ISBN13: 9781472223210 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-2321-0 ISBN10: 1472223217 EAN: 9781472223210 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. A beautifully depicted love affair with Greece, and a spellbinding tale of love and loss. It is fiction with a distinctive photographic framework - magical and unique.'Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page' Daily Mail'When it comes to tales about Greece, Hislop is an undisputed queen - and this is easily her best novel yet' HeatWeek after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to someone Ellie does not know, each signed with an initial: A.These alluring cartes postales of Greece brighten her life and cast a spell on her. She decides she must see this country for herself. On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens, a notebook arrives. Its pages tell the story of a man's odyssey through Greece. Moving, surprising and sometimes dark, A's tale unfolds with the discovery not only of a culture, but also of a desire to live life to the full once more. Praise for Cartes Postales. . . 'When it comes to tales about Greecem Hislop is an undisputed queen'Heat magazine'A lavish love letter to Greece'Sunday Mirror'A beautiful tale of love, struggle and redemption'Prima'This wonderful, illuminating novel is a perfect escape'Woman & Home'This beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life'Sun on Sunday _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Return: The 'captivating and deeply moving' Number One bestseller Victoria Hislop (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

06 Apr 2009

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 592pp h177mm x w115mm x s38mm 310g Map ISBN13: 9780755348947 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-4894-7 ISBN10: 075534894X EAN: 9780755348947 x Description: 'Aims to open the eyes and tug the heartstrings' Independent An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here to dance. But in a quiet cafe, a chance conversation and an intriguing collection of old photographs draw her into the extraordinary tale of Spain's devastating civil war. Seventy years earlier, the cafe is home to the close-knit Ramirez family. In 1936, an army coup led by Franco shatters the country's fragile peace, and in the heart of Granada the family witnesses the worst atrocities of conflict. Divided by politics and tragedy, everyone must take a side, fighting a personal battle as Spain rips itself apart. Praise for The Return. . . 'Hislop deserves a medal for opening a breach into the holiday beach bag' Independent 'Captivating and deeply moving' Look 'Hislop marries an epic family saga with meticulous historical research, and it's a captivating partnership' Easy Living 'Executed with verve and sensitivity' Sunday Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Sunrise: The Number One Sunday Times bestseller 'Fascinating and moving' Victoria Hislop (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

04 Jun 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h178mm x w116mm x s29mm 226g Map ISBN13: 9780755377817 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-7781-7 ISBN10: 0755377818 EAN: 9780755377817 x Description: 'Intelligent and immersive... a poignant, compelling family saga' The Sunday Times The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the millioncopy best-selling author of The Island, The Thread, and The Return. In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island's most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious and the OEzkans, are among many who moved to Famagusta to escape the years of unrest and ethnic violence elsewhere on the island. But beneath the city's facade of glamour and success, tension is building. When a Greek coup plunges the island into chaos, Cyprus faces a disastrous conflict. Turkey invades to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, and Famagusta is shelled. Forty thousand people seize their most precious possessions and flee from the advancing soldiers. In the deserted city, just two families remain. This is their story. Praise for The Sunrise. . . 'Fascinating and moving' The Times 'An imaginative tour de force, and a great read' Daily Mail 'An absorbing tale about family, friendship, loyalty and betrayal' Good Housekeeping 'Heartbreaking' Essentials 'Vibrant... Hislop brings history to life in this compelling tale' Tatler 'Fascinating' Sunday Mirror _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dust To Dust Tami Hoag (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

05 Jul 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s30mm 225g ISBN13: 9780752843339 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4333-9 ISBN10: 0752843338 EAN: 9780752843339 This Product is Replaced By: 9781409121466 x Description: The death of internal affairs investigator Andy Paxton is a potential political bomb for the Minneapolis Police Department...Andy Paxton was gay and he was investigating a possible cop connection in the brutal murder of another gay officer. But Andy's death looks like suicide, or an unfortunate and embarrassing accident, and the pressure is on from the top brass to close the case as soon as possible. But the investigation's lead detective Sam Kovac is not convinced the case is as straightforward as it appears. As he digs deeper, it is looking very much like Paxton discovered something that got him killed. And he might not be the final victim... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Firesong: A Novel Of Russia Joseph Hone (Author) Series:

Edition:

Unabridged edition

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

19 Nov 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 704pp h197mm x w130mm x s42mm 465g ISBN13: 9780330321501 ISBN13: 978-0-330-32150-1 ISBN10: 0330321501 EAN: 9780330321501 x Description: New Year's Day, 1906. A family celebrates, skating on the ice of a vast lake, far north in Russia. Cousins of the Romanov Tsars, this is the Rumovsky family - Prince Pyotr, his wife Princess Sofia, their son Ivan and twins Yelena and Alexander, and their young Irish governess, Miss Harriet. With them is the patriarch of the family, old Prince Mikhail, a strange, towering figure, a man from another century, with his fabulous Boyars' court at the castle, a Tamburlaine of the snows . . . Behind the Rumovsky family and their mediaeval island castle lie 300 years of autocratic but peaceful rule. Ahead of them, the old Prince expects the same for his descendants. It is not to be. Firesong is the story of the Rumovskies - their lives, deaths and hazardous escapes in the nightmarish new Russia that soon engulfs them: a land stricken by famine, pestilence, war and death. A story both intimate and epic, reminiscent of Dr Zhivago, this is a dramatic saga of men and women who fight for their destiny, in love and peace, against all the odds of war and dissolution. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Whatever Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory (Author) Paul Hammond (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Serpent's Tail

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

14 Jan 1999

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w128mm x s10mm 115g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852425845 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-584-5 ISBN10: 1852425849 EAN: 9781852425845 This Product is Replaced By: 9781846687846 x

Description: Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Enchantment of Lily Dahl Siri Hustvedt (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

19 Jun 1997 (04 Feb 2010)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h197mm x w130mm x s19mm 208g None ISBN13: 9780340682364 ISBN13: 978-0-340-68236-4 ISBN10: 0340682361 EAN: 9780340682364 x Description: Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erotic adventure, she finds herself the target of mysterious acts of madness as she strains against the confines of small town life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Mar 2007

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h199mm x w130mm x s21mm 249g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781841959061 ISBN13: 978-1-84195-906-1 ISBN10: 1841959065 EAN: 9781841959061 x Description: Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records and faith in his ability to detect when adults are lying, John remains hopeful despite the unfortunate cards life deals him. During one year in John's life, from his voice breaking, through the breaking-up of his home life, to the near collapse of his sanity, we witness the gradual unsticking of John's mind, and the trouble that creates for him and his family. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Carry Me Down M. J. Hyland (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Mar 2007

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w112mm x s20mm 180g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781841959719 ISBN13: 978-1-84195-971-9 ISBN10: 1841959715 EAN: 9781841959719

x Description: Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records and faith in his ability to detect when adults are lying, John remains hopeful despite the unfortunate cards life deals him.

During one year in John's life, from his voice breaking, through the breaking-up of his home life, to the near collapse of his sanity, we witness the gradual unsticking of John's mind, and the trouble that creates for him and his family. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Deafening Frances Itani (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export ed

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h23mm x w111mm x s177mm 211g n/a ISBN13: 9780340833322 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83332-2 ISBN10: 0340833327 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Act of Love Howard Jacobson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

03 Sep 2009 (05 May 2011)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 224g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099526735 ISBN13: 978-0-09-952673-5 ISBN10: 0099526735 EAN: 9780099526735 x Description: No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London's oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realises that he can only be truly happy if his wife is sleeping with another man. Enter Marius into Marisa's affections. And now Felix must ask himself, is he really happy?By the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

03 May 2011

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 193g Paperback ISBN13: 9781408818466 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-1846-6 ISBN10: 1408818469 EAN: 9781408818466 x Description: Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked - and his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes.

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The Two Hearts Of Kwasi Boachi Arthur Japin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 245g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099287872 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928787-2 ISBN10: 0099287870 EAN: 9780099287872 x Description: In 1837, two young African princes arrive at the court of Willem I in the Netherlands. They have been given to the Dutch by the King of the Ashanti as surety in a deal over illegal slave trading. The two boys think they have been sent to acquire a European education, but time passes.

They forget their native language and become exiles. Treated as curiosities by white people, their friendship suffers and their paths diverge. Years later, as the twentieth century dawns, the elderly Kwasi, now owner of a coffee plantation in Java, sits down to write his autobiography. Based on a true story, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi is both a brilliant piece of storytelling and a moving portrayal of the search for identity and belonging. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Women as Lovers Elfriede Jelinek (Author) Martin Chalmers (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Serpent's Tail

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

15 Nov 1994

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h199mm x w128mm x s15mm 180g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852422370 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-237-0 ISBN10: 1852422378 EAN: 9781852422370 x Description: The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realize that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory.

Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for for Heinz, a young, plump, up-and-coming businessman. With Paula, feelings and dreams become confused. She gets pregnant by Erich, the forestry worker. He's handsome, so they marry. Brigitte gets it right. Paula gets it wrong. Using the conventions and language of romantic fiction, Elfriede Jelinek has written a moving tragedy whose power lies in its refusal to take at face value its characters' dreams and aspirations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lust Elfriede Jelinek (Author) Michael Hulse (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Serpent's Tail

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

15 Mar 1992

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w128mm x s17mm 178g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852421830 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-183-0 ISBN10: 1852421835 EAN: 9781852421830 x Description: In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices, nastily, briefly, brutally. The long-suffering and battered Gerti thinks she has found her saviour and

love in Michael, a student who rescues her after a day of vigorous use by her husband. But Michael is on his way up the Austrian political ladder, and he is, after all, a man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wonderful, Wonderful Times Elfriede Jelinek (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Serpent's Tail

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jun 1990

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h200mm x w125mm x s15mm 192g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852421687 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-168-7 ISBN10: 1852421681 EAN: 9781852421687 x Description: 'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground. What's unnecessary is best of all, says Rainer, who wants to go on fighting. We ageed on that.' It is the late 1950s. A man is out walking in a park in Vienna. He will be beaten up by four teenagers, not for his money, he has an average amount ? nor for anything he might have done to them, but because the youths are arrogant and very pleased with themselves. Their arrogance is their way of reacting to the maggot?ridden corpse that is Austria where everyone has a closet to hide their Nazi histories, their sexual perversions and their hatred of the foreigner. Elfriede Jelinek, who writes like an angel of all that is tawdry, shows in Wonderful, Wonderful Times how actions of the present are determined by thoughts of the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Moral Hazard Kate Jennings (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

01 Apr 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 158g ISBN13: 9781841157382 ISBN13: 978-1-84115-738-2 ISBN10: 1841157384 EAN: 9781841157382 x Description: The acclaimed second novel from Kate Jennings, author of `Snake'.

On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. She finds herself working there because she needs serious money: after ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is gravely ill. So begins her journey into two nightmare worlds. `Powerful, and darkly, disconcertingly comic.' Margaret Walters, Sunday Times `Blackly funny, coruscatingly clear-eyed and intelligent, Kate Jennings' second novel doesn't waste a word.' Maureen Duffy, author of Restitution `A unique book by an extraordinary writer: The great city illuminated from within.' Shirley Hazzard, author of `The Transit of Venus' `A small pearl of a novel...as gripping as any thriller.' Newsday _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

If You Are Afraid of Heights Raj Kamal Jha (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

02 Jul 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 157g ISBN13: 9780330427364 ISBN13: 978-0-330-42736-4 ISBN10: 0330427369 EAN: 9780330427364

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My Nine Lives Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Pub Date:

07 Mar 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w126mm x s18mm 210g 9 drawings by C.S. Jhabvala ISBN13: 9780719561832 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6183-2 ISBN10: 0719561833 EAN: 9780719561832 x Description: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. My Nine Lives represents a new and fascinating strand in her outstanding canon of work: as she puts it, the 'potentially autobiographical'. Behind her poised, eloquent prose Ruth Prawer Jhabvala deftly tussles with the existential question of how destiny is shaped. In each chapter of My Nine Lives the narrator faces a startlingly different fate. One story takes place in India, the next in New York; in one the narrator is grown married woman, in another a dependent daughter, in one a scholar, in another an uneducated ingenue. But a complex thread interlinks the seemingly disparate stories: the 'I' of each chapter has Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Jewish, Central European background. Here are nine different answers to the central question: what would happen if I were granted an alternative life? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Crazed Ha Jin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Sep 2003

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 336pp h177mm x w111mm x s21mm 185g ISBN13: 9780099453598 ISBN13: 978-0-09-945359-8 ISBN10: 0099453592 EAN: 9780099453598 x Description: In his powerful new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - has been assigned to care for him. What initially seems a simple if burdensome duty becomes more problematic when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues, and a system in which a scholar is 'just a piece of meat on a cutting board.'Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. At once nuanced and fierce, earthy and humane, The Crazed is further evidence of Ha Jin's prodigious narrative gifts. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In The Pond Ha Jin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 192pp h180mm x w110mm x s14mm 105g ISBN13: 9780099429340 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942934-0 ISBN10: 0099429349 EAN: 9780099429340 x

Description: Shao Bin is a factory fitter in a small Chinese town, a poor and unconnected man with a young wife and a small child, but also an accomplished artist and calligrapher. He's worked at the plant for six years, so feels that this time his family will get an appartment in Worker's Park, where his wife won't have to walk two miles to wash their clothes.

But the party controls everything in the town, and again, the apartments go to corrupt officials and their cronies. Outraged, Bin pens a series of political cartoons attacking them, and finds his trouble is only just beginning. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sixty Lights Jones, Gail (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

The Harvill Press

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Sep 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback Paper over boards 256pp h223mm x w136mm x s24mm 390g ISBN13: 9781843431954 ISBN13: 978-1-84343-195-4 ISBN10: 1843431955 EAN: 9781843431954 x Description: "Photography has without doubt made her a seer; she is a woman of the future, someone leaning into time, beyond others, precarious, unafraid to fall..." This is the story of Lucy Strange, a photographer, while the art is in its infancy, in the 1870s, who exists in an extraordinarily heightened state of seeing and imagining. Her tale is told in sixty illuminated parts - using candlelight, flames, lightning, gas-lamps, mirrors, magic lanterns and, most mysteriously, lit faces and bodies. In a contracted, almost modernist form, Sixty Lights tracks Lucy's life from her childhood in Australia, to her stormy adolescence in England and India and finally to her death in London at the age of twenty-three. It is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminished: she is a remarkable character, forthright, gifted, passionate and canny. Sixty Lights plays powerfully with Victorian tropes and texts orphans, inheritances, Great Expectations - setting them against the technological revolution in seeing that is inspired by photography. Written with astute imagistic precision, the story is deeply layered, fluctuating between past, present and future. This is an impressive UK debut from a prizewinning _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Never Greener Ruth Jones (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

21 May 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w127mm x s31mm 360g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784162221 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-222-1 ISBN10: 1784162221 EAN: 9781784162221 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, PICKED FOR THE ZOE BALL TV BOOK CLUB'Ruth Jones is excellent on human nature and why we make the mistakes we do. I felt for every character. Unputdownable.' Jojo Moyes *****The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up.When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense and passionate affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she'd never get over it. Seventeen years later, life has moved on - Kate, now a successful actress, is living in London, married to Matt and mother to little Tallulah. Meanwhile Callum and his wife Belinda are happy together, living in Edinburgh and watching their kids grow up. The past, it would seem, is well and truly behind them all. But then Kate meets Callum again. And they are faced with a choice: to walk away from each other . . . or to risk finding out what might have been.Second chances are a rare gift in life. But that doesn't mean they should always be taken . . .*****In her unmissable debut, actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones shows us the dangers of trying to recapture that which was once lost and failing to realise the beauty of what we already have.*****'I love books about gnarly, messy relationships and this one kept me gripped from the beginning. A great read.'

Jane Fallon'Heart-rending, provocative and astutely written, Never Greener is a love story about getting what you want and losing everything you need.

Ruth's characters will stay with me for a long time.' Cathy BramleyUS THREE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM RUTH JONES, IS OUT NOW _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An American Marriage: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019 Tayari Jones (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Oneworld Publications

Publisher:

Oneworld Publications

Pub Date:

07 Mar 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm MMP ISBN13: 9781786075192 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-519-2 ISBN10: 1786075199 EAN: 9781786075192 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION, 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama A Book of the Year according the i, Guardian, Sunday Times, Sunday Mail Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit.

Devastated and unmoored, Celestial finds herself struggling to hold on to the love that has been her centre, taking comfort in Andre, their closest friend. When Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, he returns home ready to resume their life together.

A masterpiece of storytelling, An American Marriage offers a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three unforgettable characters who are at once bound together and separated by forces beyond their control. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter Pamela Jooste (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Nov 1998 (02 Jan 1999)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w127mm x s22mm 242g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552997577 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99757-7 ISBN10: 0552997579 EAN: 9780552997577 x Description: 'My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her hopalong leg, and me. The men in our family are not worth much. They are the cross we have to bear. Some of us, like my mother, don't live here any more. People say she went on the Kimberley train to try for white and I mustn't blame her because she could get away with it even if we didn't believe she would.' Through the sharp yet loving eyes of eleven-year-old Lily we see the whole exotic, vivid, vigorous culture of the Cape Coloured community at the time when apartheid threatened its destruction. As Lily's beautiful but angry mother returns to Cape Town, determined to fight for justice for her family, so the story of Lily's past - and future - erupts. Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter is a powerful and moving tribute to a richly individual people. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Frieda And Min Pamela Jooste (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w127mm x s23mm 254g ISBN13: 9780552997584 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99758-4 ISBN10: 0552997587 EAN: 9780552997584 x Description: When Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She was a silent, unhappy girl, dumped on Frieda's exuberant family in Johannesburg for the summer of 1964 so that her mother could go off with her new husband. In a way, Min and Frieda were both outsiders - Min, raised in the bush by her idealistic doctor father, and Frieda, daughter of a poor Jewish saxophone player who lived almost on top of a native neighborhood. The two girls, thrown together - the 'white kaffir' and the poor Jewish girl - formed a strange but loyal friendship, a friendship that was to last even through the terrible years of oppression and betrayal during the time of South Africa under Apartheid. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Like Water In Wild Places Pamela Jooste (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Apr 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp 228g ISBN13: 9780552998673 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99867-3 ISBN10: 0552998672 EAN: 9780552998673 x Description: "Like Water in Wild Places" is a story about a brother and sister trying to throw off the legacy of hatred and derision that formed so much of their upbringing in South Africa. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Broken April Ismail Kadare (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

06 Nov 2003 (04 Dec 2008)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s129mm 159g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099449874 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944987-4 ISBN10: 0099449870 EAN: 9780099449874 x Description: From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April. Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive. The bride's heart goes out to Gjorg, and even these 'civilised' strangers from the city risk becoming embroiled in the fatal mechanism of vendetta. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Successor Ismail Kadare (Author) David Bellos (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

25 Jan 2007

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: Albanian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 154g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781841958873 ISBN13: 978-1-84195-887-3 ISBN10: 1841958875 EAN: 9781841958873 x Description: The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14.

Did he kill himself or was he murdered?

This question slices through Ismail Kadare's masterful psychological thriller. As the state insists that the future leader died by his own hand, the rest of the world begins to have doubts. As the tension builds and rumours escalate, Kadare draws us into a nightmarish world controlled by rules no one understands, blending dream and reality to produce a mystery and a thriller that seduces and surprises up to the last page. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Trial Franz Kafka (Author) Idris Parry (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

29 Jun 2000 (25 Jan 2007)

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g ISBN13: 9780141182902 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118290-2 ISBN10: 0141182903 EAN: 9780141182902 x Description: A gripping work of psychological horror, in its depiction of bureaucracy run amok Franz Kafka's The Trial skirts the line between fantasy and reality. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the German with an introduction by Idris Parry.'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his right to exist. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved.

As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.

Maintaining an atmosphere of unease throughout, this chilling, thought-provoking novel, more than any other, is infinitely perceptive about the nature of terror and the absurd meaninglessness and futility of human life.Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born German-speaking insurance clerk who despised his job, preferring to spend his time writing. Nevertheless, Kafka published little during his lifetime, and ordered his closest friend to burn the mass of unpublished manuscripts - now familiar to us as some of the most influential novels and short stories of the twentieth century - after his death.

Kafka's novels, all available in Penguin Modern Classics, include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.If you enjoyed The Trial, you might like Kafka's The Castle, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'This compelling, prophetic novel anticipates the insanity of modern bureaucracy and the coming of totalitarianism'Daily Telegraph'It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of [The Trial] that it offers everything and confirms nothing'Albert Camus _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Commissariat of Enlightenment Ken Kalfus (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Ecco Press

Publisher:

Ecco Press

Pub Date:

04 Feb 2003

Publishing Status:

Out of stock indefinitely

Published in: United States Hardback Sewn 304pp h235mm x w164mm x s28mm 590g ISBN13: 9780060501365 ISBN13: 978-0-06-050136-5 ISBN10: 0060501367 EAN: 9780060501365 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Pu 239 and Other Russian Fantasies KALFUS (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Simon & Schuster

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Pub Date:

01 Dec 2000

Publishing Status:

Unspecified

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 304pp h185mm x w165mm x s19mm 327g ISBN13: 9780743400756 ISBN13: 978-0-7434-0075-6 ISBN10: 0743400755 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When I Hit You Meena Kandasamy (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

01 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 254g ISBN13: 9781786491282 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-128-2 ISBN10: 1786491281 EAN: 9781786491282 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Courageous and brave and disturbing and will stay with you for a long time' -StylistCaught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience and as her family pressures her to stay in the marriage, she swears to fight back - a resistance that will either kill her or set her free. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Snakes & Earrings Hitomi Kanehara (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Jun 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h178mm x w130mm x s9mm 115g ISBN13: 9780099483670 ISBN13: 978-0-09-948367-0 ISBN10: 009948367X EAN: 9780099483670

x Description: This tale of sex and darkness is narrated by Lui, an alienated young Japanese woman who becomes disastrously involved with two dangerous men. Lui first meets her boyfriend Ama in a bar after finding herself mesmerised by his forked tongue. She immediately moves in with him and begins following him down the path to body modification by having her tongue pierced and planning a beautiful tattoo for her back. Ama's friend Shiba creates this exquisite tattoo and as he works on it Lui begins an illicit and brutal sexual relationship with him. Then, after a violent encounter on the back streets of Tokyo, Ama goes missing and Lui must face up to her choices. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Fratricides Nikos Kazantzakis (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

17 Jan 1998

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 256pp h178mm x w112mm x s17mm 165g ISBN13: 9780571105069 ISBN13: 978-0-571-10506-9 ISBN10: 0571105068 EAN: 9780571105069 x Description: The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, have taken to the mountains and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and, with murder, death and destruction everywhere, Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Freedom and Death Nikos Kazantzakis (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

01 Nov 1995

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 480pp h180mm x w110mm x s30mm 294g ISBN13: 9780571178575 ISBN13: 978-0-571-17857-5 ISBN10: 057117857X EAN: 9780571178575 x Description: Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother. The life of the local community continues shakily, but is disrupted by explosions of violence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Random House USA Paperbacks

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Pub Date:

01 Dec 1996

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h200mm x w132mm x s11mm 170g Illustrations, unspecified ISBN13: 9780679762652 ISBN13: 978-0-679-76265-2 ISBN10: 0679762655 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

My Fat Brother Jim Keeble (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

15 Aug 2003

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w130mm x s25mm 272g ISBN13: 9780141009261 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100926-1 ISBN10: 0141009268 x Description: Scott has it all. A beautiful girlfriend, a career and a slim physique. In contrast, his brother Jes is overweight, piling on the pounds in front of the TV with his wife. When their mother dies and their worlds start to crumble, both men must face up to their feelings of abandonment and insecurity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Turlough Brian Keenan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h1mm x w1mm x s1mm 239g ISBN13: 9780099474319 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947431-9 ISBN10: 009947431X x Description: While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by the dark. Narrated largely by O'Carolan from his death-bed, and through the recollections of those closest to him, Turlough powerfully brings to life a lost Ireland of famine and disease, eviction and oppression. Stalking through the broken and dispossessed comes Turlough O'Carolan, the musical prodigy, blinded by smallpox and now an itinerant harper, lauded by the aristocracy and a hero to his people. His Rabelaisian desire for drink and women is counterpointed by his artistic struggle towards the great music and some kind of inner peace. Driven by demons and dreams, riven by contradictions, Turlough emerges as a great man, full of frailty: a blind man afraid of the dark.

A panoramic picaresque, rich with the textures and smells of rural Ireland and peopled by a host of angels and devils, Turlough is a remarkable historical journey, and a huge imaginative feat. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Disaffection James Kelman (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

07 Oct 1999 (05 Jun 2008)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 245g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099283096 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928309-6 ISBN10: 0099283093 EAN: 9780099283096 x Description: Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Pigeon English Stephen Kelman (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

07 Mar 2011

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w153mm 444g ISBN13: 9781408810637 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-1063-7 ISBN10: 1408810638 EAN: 9781408810637 x Description: Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him.

With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of urban survival.

But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe.

A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gossip From the Forest Thomas Keneally (Author) Series:

Edition:

2nd edition

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

01 Nov 1988 (01 Nov 2001)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h197mm x w129mm x s16mm 166g none ISBN13: 9780340431047 ISBN13: 978-0-340-43104-7 ISBN10: 0340431040 EAN: 9780340431047 x Description: In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides are torn by battle exhaustion and a confusion that far exceed their national differences. In this riveting combination of history, speculation and rumour, Thomas Keneally recreates the personalities, ideals, prejudices, arguments and desperate measures that resulted in the armistice which would shape the future of Europe.Price: GBP5.99Edition: SecondFormat:198 x 129 mmImprint: SceptreMarkets:BCN ex CanFour of Thomas Keneally's novels have been shortlisted for the Booker prize and SCHINDLER'S ARK (filmed by Steven Spielberg as Schindler's List) has sold more copies than any other Booker Prize-winner. He is also the author of several works of non-fiction, including THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN, about the American Southwest.BIRTHPLACE: New South Wales, Australia. WHEREABOUTS: Sydney, AustraliaPREVIOUS BOOKS: INCLUDEBLOOD RED, SISTER ROSE; CONFEDERATES; THE PLAYMAKER; THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN; A FAMILY MADNESS; TOWARDS ASMARA; WOMAN OF THE INNER SEA; JACKO; SCHINDLER'S LISTTHE PROMOTION*Part of the new Sceptre relaunchSELLING POINTS(1)Shortlisted for the Booker Prize(2) Publication will coincide with Keneally's new novel A RIVER TOWN and the paperback of JACKO.(3) Author PR on publication. Keneally will be here to take part in the Sceptre promotion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Roman Song Brian Kennedy (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hachette Books Ireland

Publisher:

Hachette Books Ireland

Pub Date:

03 May 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: Ireland Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h197mm x w128mm x s22mm 249g ISBN13: 9780340832325 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83232-5 ISBN10: 0340832320 EAN: 9780340832325 x Description: When Fergal Flynn's remarkable singing talent is discovered by world-famous opera star Alfredo Moretti, the young man leaves his native Belfast and sets out for Rome, to study under the famous singer.It's a far cry from working-class Belfast, but Fergal soon finds out that excaping from a troubled past is not just a matter of geography. The more he tries to hide his rough edges, the harder it becomes for him to unearth his true voice.

Then, Sudden news from home means he must returns to face one of the biggest challenges of his life.As Fergal begins to see his life in a new light, Alfredo faces his own drama as his buried past come back to haunt him. The result is an enchanting, funny and moving tale of coming to terms with your true self and of learning to recognise the signs when love comes to town. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Spinsters Pagan Kennedy (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Serpent's Tail

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Oct 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 168pp h204mm x w126mm x s11mm 180g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852424053 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-405-3 ISBN10: 1852424052 EAN: 9781852424053 x Description: It?s 1968, and Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally freed from family ties and constraints when their father dies. Taking off in their Plymouth Valiant they hit the road on a journey through the changing cultural landscape of America - civil rights marches, the assasinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. Frannie longs to return to the safety of her former reclusive life, but Doris just wants to raise hell and get laid.

A touching, lyrical, and superbly crafted mid-life coming-of-age tale that was short-listed for the 1996 Orange Prize. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fatelessness Imre Kertesz (Author) Tim Wilkinson (Translated by) Series:

Vintage International

Edition:

Imprint:

Random House Inc

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Pub Date:

01 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) Colour of cover - Blue, CPSIA choking hazard - 272pp h202mm x w135mm x s15mm 200g ISBN13: 9781400078639 ISBN13: 978-1-4000-7863-9 ISBN10: 1400078636 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Kaddish For An Unborn Child Imre Kertesz (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Books

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Pub Date:

15 Nov 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 128pp 137g ISBN13: 9781400078622 ISBN13: 978-1-4000-7862-2 ISBN10: 1400078628 EAN: 9781400078622 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Break Marian Keyes (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

16 Apr 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 672pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 484g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781405918756 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1875-6 ISBN10: 1405918756 EAN: 9781405918756 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS, MARIAN KEYES'JUST BRILLIANT' SUNDAY TIMES___________'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.''A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?'If only.Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her.He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together.Six months in South-East Asia. And nothing she says can stop him.But when does a break become a break-up?A lot can happen in six months. And it's enough to send Amy and her family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers teetering over the edge.When Hugh returns, if he returns, will he be the same man she married?Will Amy be the same woman?Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then . . . isn't she on one too?_____________'Mercilessly funny' The Times'I laughed . . . I cried' Daily Mail'Full of darkness and light, this is Keyes at her classic and most brilliant best' RedSHORTLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mosaic Sohei Khashoggi (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

03 Nov 2003

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp 212g ISBN13: 9780553814101 ISBN13: 978-0-553-81410-1 ISBN10: 0553814109 EAN: 9780553814101 x Description: Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendour of Jordan, Mosaic is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions - and one woman's struggle to recapture her life. Like many working mothers, Dina Ahmed has become adept at juggling her family life with her work commitments. The owner of Mosaic, the thriving floral design business she has worked hard to establish, Dina has been blessed with success, beauty and, most importantly, a happy family. But one fateful day she returns to her lavish Upper East Side home to discover that her six-year-old twins have vanished - and very suddenly, her once comfortable life is turned upside down. It is only after many desperate phone calls - and anxious hours spent piecing the puzzle together - that Dina is forced to accept the terrible truth: her husband, Karim, has snatched the twins and has returned to Jordon with them to begin a new life. Distraught but determined to fight for her children, Dina turns to her friends, Emmeline and

Sarah - and to John Constantine, the one man she must learn to trust if she can ever hope to rebuild her shattered life.

-Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendour of Jordan, Mosaic is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions - and one woman's struggle to recapture her life. Like many working mothers, Dina Ahmed has become adept at juggling her family life with her work commitments. The owner of Mosaic, the thriving floral design business she has worked hard to establish, Dina has been blessed with success, beauty and, most importantly, a happy family. But one fateful day she returns to her lavish Upper East Side home to discover that her sixyear-old twins have vanished - and very suddenly, her once comfortable life is turned upside down. It is only after many desperate phone calls - and anxious hours spent piecing the puzzle together - that Dina is forced to accept the terrible truth: her husband, Karim, has snatched the twins and has returned to Jordan with them to begin a new life. Distraught but determined to fight for her children, Dina turns to her friends, Emmeline and Sarah and to John Constantine, the one man she must learn to trust if she can ever hope to rebuild her shattered life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Everything I Don't Remember Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Author) Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Export

Imprint:

Scribner UK

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jun 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning No warning 320pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781471155086 ISBN13: 978-1-4711-5508-6 ISBN10: 1471155080 EAN: 9781471155086 x Description: Dazzling, inventive, witty: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial A young man called Samuel dies, but was it an accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal friend, the contrived poser. The young man who would do anything for his girlfriend Laide and share everything with his friend Vandad. Until Vandad, marginalised and broke, desperate to get closer to Samuel, drives a wedge between the friends, and Samuel loses them both.

Everything I Don't Remember is an enthralling tale of love and memory. It is also the story of a writer who, in filling out the contours of Samuel's life, is trying to grasp a universal truth - in the end, how do we account for the substance of a life?'With its energetic prose and innovative structure, Everything I Don't Remember confirms that Jonas Hassen Khemiri is not only one of Sweden's best authors, but a great talent of our time' Vendela Vida, author of The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty'Heartbreakingly sad and laugh-out-loud funny . . . Khemiri's wry , sharply observed tales of post-9-11 Swedish life have a huge following. This novel's chorus of drifters, romantics and cynics stick in the memory, each competing to tell their own truth' Hari Kunzru 'A generation-defining writer' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Plotters Un-su Kim (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

25 Jul 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 200g ISBN13: 9780008315788 ISBN13: 978-0-00-831578-8 ISBN10: 0008315787 EAN: 9780008315788 x Description: A dark, funny, deliciously different literary thriller about a jaded hitman, set in the criminal underworld of Seoul 'Kill Bill meets Murakami' D. B. John, author of Star of the North 'A work of literary genius' Karen Dionne, internationally bestselling author of Home 'I loved it!' M. W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show 'You'll be laughing out loud every five minutes' You-jeong Jeong, author of The Good Son 'A mash-up of Tarantino and Camus set in contemporary Seoul' Louisa Luna, author of Two Girls Down 'An incredible cast of characters' Le monde 'Smart but lightning fast' Brian Evenson, author of Last Days Plotters are just pawns like us. A request comes in and they draw up the plans. There's someone above them who tells them what to do. And

above that person is another plotter telling them what to do. You think that if you go up there with a knife and stab the person at the very top, that'll fix everything. But no-one's there. It's just an empty chair.

Reseng was raised by cantankerous Old Raccoon in the Library of Dogs. To anyone asking, it's just an ordinary library. To anyone in the know, it's a hub for Seoul's organised crime, and a place where contract killings are plotted and planned. So it's no surprise that Reseng has grown up to become one of the best hitmen in Seoul. He takes orders from the plotters, carries out his grim duties, and comforts himself afterwards with copious quantities of beer and his two cats, Desk and Lampshade.

But after he takes pity on a target and lets her die how she chooses, he finds his every move is being watched. Is he finally about to fall victim to his own game? And why does that new female librarian at the library act so strangely? Is he looking for his enemies in all the wrong places? Could he be at the centre of a plot bigger than anything he's ever known? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver (Author) Series:

Edition:

Open market ed

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

19 Mar 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h178mm x w111mm 237g ISBN13: 9780571207831 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20783-1 ISBN10: 0571207839 x Description: This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another, and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Can You Keep A Secret? Sophie Kinsella (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

21 Nov 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w127mm x s23mm 262g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784165345 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-534-5 ISBN10: 1784165344 EAN: 9781784165345 x Description: The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella . . . soon to be a major motion picture!Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets.Secrets from her mother:1.

I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching TV.... From her boyfriend:2.

I'm a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor thinks.3.

I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.... From her colleagues:4.

When Artemis really annoys me (which is pretty much every day), I feed her plant orange juice.5.

It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times....Secrets she wouldn't share with anyone in the world:6.

My G string is hurting me.7.

I faked my Maths GCSE grade on my CV.8.

I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is......until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. After all, she'll never see him again.But on Monday morning, Emma's office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company's elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn't possibly get worse... Until they do.***** EVERYBODY LOVES SOPHIE KINSELLA: *****'Funny, fast and farcical. I loved it' JOJO MOYES'I couldn't put it down.' LOUISE PENTLAND (SprinkleofGlitter)'I almost cried with laughter' DAILY MAIL'Life doesn't get much better than a new Sophie Kinsella novel' RED'Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page' JENNY COLGAN _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel Sophie Kinsella (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

13 Jul 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w127mm x s29mm 315g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784160425 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-042-5 ISBN10: 1784160423 EAN: 9781784160425 x Description: THE HILARIOUS AND BRILLIANT BESTSELLER FROM NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR SOPHIE KINSELLA'Sure to make you laugh out loud' CloserKatie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed.OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn't really hers. But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren't they?Until her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. All Katie's hopes are shattered. She has to move home to Somerset, where she helps her dad with his new glamping business. Then Demeter and her family book in for a holiday, and Katie sees her chance. But should she get revenge on the woman who ruined her dreams - or try to get her job back? Does Demeter - the woman who has everything - actually have such an idyllic life herself? Maybe they have more in common than it seems. And what's wrong with not-so-perfect, anyway?Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella:"I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail"Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan"Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it" Jojo Moyes"A superb tale. Five stars!"

HeatCOMING SOON the joyful new standalone novel from Sophie Kinsella: LOVE YOUR LIFE ***AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW*** _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Surprise Me: The Sunday Times Number One bestseller Sophie Kinsella (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

28 Jun 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h178mm x w110mm x s25mm 212g A-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784163952 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-395-2 ISBN10: 1784163953 EAN: 9781784163952 x Description: NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella's emotionally charged, witty new standalone novel about love and long-term relationship survival - and how those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . .After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. They have a happy marriage and believe they know everything there is to know about each other. Until it's casually mentioned to them that they could be together for another sixty-eight years... and panic sets in.They quickly decide to create little surprises for each other, to keep their relationship fresh and fun. But in their pursuit of Project Surprise Me - anything from unexpected gifts to restaurant dates to photo shoots - mishaps arise with disastrous and comical results. Gradually, the surprises turn to shocking discoveries. And when a scandal from the past is uncovered, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other after all...***** EVERYBODY LOVES SOPHIE KINSELLA: *****'Left me giddy with laughter. I loved it' JOJO MOYES'One of the most relatable books I've read in a long time, I couldn't put it down.' LOUISE PENTLAND (SprinkleofGlitter)'Life doesn't get much better than a new Sophie Kinsella novel' RED _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Separation Katie Kitamura (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

The Clerkenwell Press

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 204g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781781256619 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-661-9 ISBN10: 1781256616 EAN: 9781781256619 x Description: A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love.

A story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Man Who Spoke Snakish Andrus Kivirahk (Author) Christopher Moseley (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Publisher:

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Pub Date:

06 Jul 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 448pp h200mm x w130mm x s25mm 312g ISBN13: 9781611855272 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-527-2 ISBN10: 1611855276 EAN: 9781611855272 x Description: Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they're bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe.Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with his hunter-gatherer family. But when incomprehensible outsiders arrive aboard ships and settle nearby, with an intriguing new religion, the forest begins to empty - people are moving to the village and breaking their backs tilling fields to make bread. Meanwhile, Leemut and the last forest-dwelling humans refuse to adapt: with barebottomed primates and their love of ancient traditions, promiscuous bears, and a single giant louse, they live in shacks, keep wolves, and speak to snakes.Told with moving and satirical prose, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is a fiercely imaginative allegory about a boy, and a nation, standing on the brink of dramatic change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Professor Martens' Departure Jaan Kross (Author) Anselm Hollo (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

The New Press

Publisher:

The New Press

Pub Date:

18 May 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of stock indefinitely

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 304pp h234mm x w155mm 439g ISBN13: 9781565841116 ISBN13: 978-1-56584-111-6 ISBN10: 1565841115 EAN: 9781565841116 x Description: Widely read in Europe, the Estonian novelist Jaan Kross is considered one of the most important writers of the Baltic region, and is an often-named candidate for the Nobel Prize.His new historical novel, Professor Martens' Departure, is written in a classic elegiac style reminiscent of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard, and it evokes the complex world of czarist Russian society at the turn of the century. The character of Professor Martens is based on an actual official of the czarist reign, a distinguished Estonian jurist curiously reminiscent of Henry Kissinger.Faced with a dire financial crisis in Russia, Professor Martens orchestrates a major loan from the French government to stave off famine; as time passes, however, he realizes that he has managed to perpetuate a brutal regime that keeps its political prisoners in chains.This fictional memoir, written at the end of Martens' life, finds him reliving his past and questioning the degree to which he has sacrificed himself to maintain a corrupt regime, one that ultimately disdains both him and his people. Considered an outsider by the czar's adviser, Martens is nonetheless needed for his skills. Still, he is marginalized and kept in the shadows.Far more than just a political or philosophical novel, Professor Martens' Departure is an astonishing reconstruction of czarist Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera (Author) Michael Henry Heim (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

29 Apr 1985

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w126mm x s19mm 247g ISBN13: 9780571135394 ISBN13: 978-0-571-13539-4 ISBN10: 0571135390 EAN: 9780571135394 x Description: 'A cult figure.' Guardian 'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian McEwan 'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent 'A modern classic ... As relevant now as when it was first published. ' John Banville A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon - a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities.

In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'.

A masterpiece by one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - and illuminates all aspects of human existence.

What readers are saying: 'Some books change your mind, some change your heart, the very best change your whole world ... A mighty piece of work, that will shape your life forever.'

'One of the best books I've ever read ... A book about love and life, full of surprises. Beautiful.'

'This book is going to change your life ... It definitely leaves you with a hangover after you're done reading.'

'A must read - loved it, such beautiful observations on life, love and sexuality.'

'Kundera writes about love as if in a trance so the beauty of it is enchanting and dreamy ... Will stay with you forever.'

'A beautiful novel that helps you understand life better ... Loved it.'

'One of those rare novels full of depth and insight into the human condition ... Got me reading Camus and Sartre.'

'One of the best books I have ever read ... An intellectual love story if ever there was one.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transmission Hari Kunzru (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

30 Jun 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141008295 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100829-5 ISBN10: 0141008296 EAN: 9780141008295 x Description: Hari Kunzru's Transmission is a witty novel about cyberspace, a Bollywood dancer and a world where everyone is connected.It's the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected.Meet Arjun Mehta, an Indian cybergeek catapulted into California's spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising. Three dislocated individuals seeking nodes of connectivity - a place to fit in. Yet this is the twenty-first century, and their lives are about to become unexpectedly entangled as a virus spreads, and all their futures are rewired. But will it take them further from their dreams, or closer to their hearts?'An aphoristic joke, a neat turn of phrase; a joke that makes you laugh . . . there's nothing Kunzru couldn't manage in prose.

Thoroughly engrossing' Literary Review'Funny, heartfelt and beautifully written, confirms Kunzru as one of the most talented writers of his generation' Image'Very enjoyable, I couldn't put it down. Funny and wry; it is deftly plotted; its characters intimately drawn. Blissful' Observer'Utterly affecting, a novel with devastating satirical bite' Financial TimesHari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transmission Kunzru Hari (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

03 Mar 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h185mm x w115mm x s19mm 156g ISBN13: 9780141020952 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102095-2 ISBN10: 0141020954 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Midnight All Day Hanif Kureishi (Author) Hanif Kureishi (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

04 Sep 2000

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h200mm x w130mm x s15mm 210g ISBN13: 9780571203918 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20391-8 ISBN10: 0571203914 EAN: 9780571203918 x Description: The stories in Midnight All Day show a contemporary master at the top of his form, acclaimed by one reviewer for his depiction of 'a lost generation of men: those shaped by the sixties, disoriented by the eighties and bereft of a personal and political map in the nineties'.

We are unerring in our choice of lovers, particularly when we require the wrong person. There is an instinct, magnet or aerial which seeks the unsuitable. The wrong person is, of course, right for something - to punish, bully, or humiliate us, let us down, leave us for dead, or, worst of all, give us the impression that they are not inappropriate, but almost right, thus hanging us in love's limbo. Not just anyone can do this.

In this astonishing collection of stories, Hanif Kureishi confirms his reputation as Britain's foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters in Midnight All Day are familiar to all of us: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and, if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Good Angel of Death Andrey Kurkov (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Harvill Secker

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

28 Aug 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp h214mm x w135mm x s28mm 410g ISBN13: 9781846551178 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-117-8 ISBN10: 184655117X EAN: 9781846551178 x Description: When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of "War and Peace". Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolya sets out to discover more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, and more specifically to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances and was buried with a sealed letter and a manuscript. An exhumation under cover of darkness reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakhstan. As nightwatchman at a baby-milk factory, Kolya exposes himself to the attentions of a criminal gang, and so he decides to leave Kiev for a while. Armed with only three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey: crossing the Caspian Sea and traversing the deserts of Kazakhstan. He meets a host of unlikely characters on the way, including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers and a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon..."The Good Angel of Death" is a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old and new fans alike. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Gardener from Ochakov Andrey Kurkov (Author) Amanda Love Darragh (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Harvill Secker

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Aug 2013

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h214mm x w139mm x s24mm 345g ISBN13: 9781846556159 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-615-9 ISBN10: 1846556155 EAN: 9781846556159 x Description: Igor walks along in the old Soviet policeman's uniform, confident that he'll have the best costume at the party. But Igor hasn't gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty, and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror. After a perplexing conversation with the terrified man, who turns out to be a wine smuggler, and on recovering from the resulting hangover, Igor comes to an unbelievable conclusion: he has found his way back to 1957. And it isn't the innocent era his mother and her friends have so sentimentally described. As he travels between centuries, his life becomes more and more complicated. The unusual gardener who lives in his mother's shed keeps disappearing, his best friend has blackmailed the wrong people, and Igor has fallen in love with a married woman in a time before he was born. With his mother's disapproval at his absences growing, and his adventures in each time frame starting to catch up with him, Igor has to survive the past if he wants any kind of future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Milkman in the Night Andrey Kurkov (Author) Amanda Love Darragh (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Aug 2012

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 330g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099548867 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954886-7 ISBN10: 0099548860 EAN: 9780099548867 x Description: Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. When this happens several mornings in a row, he realises he needs to investigate. After his friend Volodka follows him one night, they discover he's meeting a tall, blonde woman and accompanying her to her apartment. In the daytime he doesn't know this woman or where her apartment is and, odder yet, someone is watching Volodka watching Semyon. Meanwhile, there are some strange goings-on in Kiev - an unemployed sniffer-dog handler makes a dangerous discovery, a single mother is providing breast milk for an unusual recipient and a vengeful cat is on the loose... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fall of Man in Wilmslow David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

MacLehose Press

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

06 Oct 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h196mm x w128mm x s28mm 260g ISBN13: 9781848668935 ISBN13: 978-1-84866-893-5 ISBN10: 1848668937 EAN: 9781848668935

x Description: A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero, by the acclaimed author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB.June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it's a suicide, he is nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turing's war record. What is more, Turing's sexuality appears to be causing alarm among the intelligence services could he have been blackmailed by Soviet spies? Stumbling across evidence of Turing's genius, and sensing an escape from a narrow life, Corell soon becomes captivated by Turing's brilliant and revolutionary work, and begins to dig deeper. But in the febrile atmosphere of the Cold War, loose cannons cannot be tolerated. As his innocent curiosity takes him far out of his depth, Corell realises he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Beautiful Player Christina Lauren (Author) Series:

The Beautiful Series 5

Edition:

Imprint:

Gallery

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Pub Date:

29 Oct 2013

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning No warning 432pp h210mm x w135mm x s28mm 363g ISBN13: 9781476751405 ISBN13: 978-1-4767-5140-5 ISBN10: 1476751404 EAN: 9781476751405 x Description: When Hanna "Ziggy" Bergstrom moves to New York City for graduate school, Will Sumner thinks his responsibilities to his best friend's nerdy little sister will be limited to the occasional dinner and check-in. Little does he know that Ziggy is ready to break out of her bookworm academic shell and move more into bombshell territory. Of course she figures the gorgeous womanizing venture capitalist Will is the best person to help mentor her in this new field of study: dating. Will takes on the challenge with more than a healthy dose of scepticism and humour, but soon finds that Ziggy just needed a tiny push, not a world of change, to reveal a woman every man seems to notice. Soon "Ziggy" is gone and the unfiltered, innocently seductive Hanna Bergstrom is hijacking his dreams, his moods, and even his orderly no-strings-attached dating life-beginning the night his mentoring activities move between the sheets. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Changeling Victor LaValle (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

05 Jul 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 297g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781786893826 ISBN13: 978-1-78689-382-6 ISBN10: 1786893827 EAN: 9781786893826 x Description: When Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled 'Improbabilia'. Now a successful book dealer, Kagwa has a family of his own after meeting and falling in love with Emma, a librarian. The two marry and have a baby: so far so happy-ever-after.

However, as the pair settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Emma's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, until one day she commits an unthinkable act, setting Apollo on a wild and fantastical quest through a suddenly otherworldly New York, in search of a wife and child he no longer recognises.

An epic novel for our anxiety-ridden times, The Changeling is a tale of parenthood, love - in its most raw and brutal form - and, ultimately, humanity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

William Heinemann Ltd

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

14 Jul 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h243mm x w164mm x s30mm 577g ISBN13: 9781785150289 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-028-9 ISBN10: 1785150286 EAN: 9781785150289 x Description: From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - `Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past - a journey that can be guided only by one's own conscience.

Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humour and effortless precision - a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to a classic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tishomingo Blues Elmore Leonard (Author) Series:

Edition:

Open market ed

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

30 Jan 2003

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h180mm x w110mm 181g ISBN13: 9780141012063 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101206-3 ISBN10: 0141012064 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Foetal Attraction (Birthday Edition) Kathy Lette (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

06 Sep 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 149g ISBN13: 9780330491952 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49195-2 ISBN10: 0330491954 EAN: 9780330491952 This Product is Replaced By: 9780330335270 x Description: Kathy Lette's wicked and hilarious take on motherhood and romance will have you crying with laughter. Lette hits the nail on the head every time, in a novel packed with insight, gossip and outrageous jokes. Aussie Madeline Wolfe has left her home, her surfboard, her hemisphere, for the new man in her life. But Alexander Drake, it turns out, is the kind of bloke who goes through the Tunnel of Love holding his own hand. By the time Maddy discovers that all is not perfect, she's taken a pregnancy test . . . and failed. Will Alex chicken out of his obligation to his egg? 'Buy this book give it to every woman of child-bearing age you know. She will be maternally grateful. It is funny and profoundly moving' SUE TOWNSEND

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Nip 'N' Tuck Kathy Lette (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

07 Jun 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w130mm x s18mm 181g ISBN13: 9780330491976 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49197-6 ISBN10: 0330491970 EAN: 9780330491976 x Description: Lizzie's life seems pretty damn perfect, until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded 4-0. Losing her job to a younger journalist is not the only ingrown pube in the bikini wax of Lizzie's life. Her surgeon husband, Hugo, unexpectedly falls for sabre-toothed trouser-hound, Britney Amore, an actress who keeps fit by doing step-aerobics off her own ego. Even worse, Britney persuades the hitherto idealistic Hugo to operate in her new cosmetic surgery clinic. Lizzie has always believed brains to be more important than beauty, but up against a Sex Goddess, principles and profundity are about as useful as a eunuch at a whipped-cream orgy. Must she go under the knife herself to win back the man she loves? The answer is as obvious as a pre-1990 nose job. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Lover's Dictionary: A Love Story in 185 Definitions David Levithan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

02 Feb 2012

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 244pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007377992 ISBN13: 978-0-00-737799-2 ISBN10: 0007377991 EAN: 9780007377992 x Description: How does one talk about love?

We are all beginners when it comes to love, from those tentative first dates to learning how to live with, or without, someone. But how does one describe love? How does one chart its delights and pleasures, its depths and desolations? Do we even have the right words to describe something that can be both utterly mundane and completely transcendent, pulling us out of our everyday lives and making us feel a part of something greater than ourselves? David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary starts where we all once started - with the alphabet.

Constructing the story of a relationship as a dictionary, Levithan explores the intimacies and workings of love through his nameless narrator, to paint a moving portrait of love through everyday words. Cleverly using the confines of language to provide an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being part of a couple, Levithan gives us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hot Milk Deborah Levy (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

29 May 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241968031 ISBN13: 978-0-241-96803-1 ISBN10: 0241968038 EAN: 9780241968031 x

Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw Everything 'Propulsive, uncanny, dreamlike. A feverish coming-of-age novel' Daily Telegraph'A triumph of storytelling' Literary Review'Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor of a bar built on the beach. My laptop has all my life in it and knows more about me than anyone else. So what I am saying is that if it is broken, so am I . . .''Perfectly crafted. So mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell' Independent on Sunday'Hot Milk treads a sweaty, sundrenched path into the history books. A properly great novel' Romola Garai'Hot Milk is an extraordinary novel, beautifully rich, vividly atmospheric and psychologically complex... Every man and woman should read it' Bernardine Evaristo'The contemporary writer I admire most' Linda Grant 'Hypnotic...

This novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turned' Observer'Gorgeous. What makes the book so good is Levy's great imagination, the poetry of her language, her way of finding the wonder in the everyday. It's a pleasure' New York Times'Terrific, sizzling with heat and sexuality . . . You devour it in one sitting' Radio Times'Unmissable' New Statesman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Swimming Home Deborah Levy (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

10 Sep 2012

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571299607 ISBN13: 978-0-571-29960-7 ISBN10: 0571299601 EAN: 9780571299607 x Description: As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain? Profound and thrilling, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Lubetkin Legacy Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Mar 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h181mm x w111mm x s22mm 201g ISBN13: 9780241980279 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98027-9 ISBN10: 0241980275 EAN: 9780241980279 x Description: 'Lively . . . a joy to read' - The TimesShortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizeFrom the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in UkrainianNorth London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat.A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you.A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementese.A place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds.Marina Lewycka is back in this hilarious, farcical, tender novel of modern issues and manners. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Strawberry Fields Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin USA

Publisher:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Pub Date:

01 May 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) CPSIA choking hazard - 294pp h215mm x w139mm x s17mm 295g ISBN13: 9780143113553 ISBN13: 978-0-14-311355-3 ISBN10: 0143113550 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Two Caravans Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

05 Mar 2008

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 219g no pictures ISBN13: 9780141026992 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102699-2 ISBN10: 0141026995 EAN: 9780141026992 x Description: A field of strawberries in Kent ...

And sitting in it two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they eye each other warily. There are the Poles Tomasz and Yola, two Chinese girls and Emanuel from Malawi.

They're all here to pick strawberries in England's green and pleasant land.

But these days England's not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who's taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy - who really doesn't fancy Irina, honest - must set off in search of that girl he's not in love with. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Two Caravans Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 Mar 2008

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h181mm x w111mm x s25mm 218g ISBN13: 9780141035536 ISBN13: 978-0-14-103553-6 ISBN10: 0141035536 EAN: 9780141035536 x Description: A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi. And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the Dog . . . Hilarious, gritty, moving and slapstick, Two Caravans has all the ingredients that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Number One Chinese Restaurant Lillian Li (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

ONE

Publisher:

Pushkin Press

Pub Date:

26 Sep 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: English Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911590095 ISBN13: 978-1-911590-09-5 ISBN10: 191159009X EAN: 9781911590095 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Mixing business and family is a recipe for disaster 'A warm, moving multi-generational family saga, with a blackly comic streak that will make you snort your tea' Sam Baker, The Pool Bedtime Book Club The popular Beijing Duck House has been serving devoted regulars for decades. Yet behind the staff's professional smiles simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from years of bustling restaurant life.

When disaster strikes, two of the younger generation find themselves in a dangerous game that means tragedy for the Duck House. And soon, their families are forced to finally confront the conflicts and loyalties playing out beneath the red and gold lanterns. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Yiyun Li (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

06 Nov 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 254pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007196630 ISBN13: 978-0-00-719663-0 ISBN10: 0007196636 EAN: 9780007196630 x Description: Brilliant and original, `A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.

In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In 'Extra', first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives.

In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality. She leaves us with an enduring vision of a country undergoing tremendous change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ghost Story Toby Litt (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

07 Jul 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780141017907 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101790-7 ISBN10: 0141017902 EAN: 9780141017907 x Description: When Agatha and Paddy decide to leave London and buy a house on the coast, they are full of hope for themselves and their growing family - baby Max and a new child on the way. Three months later, when the builders move out and they move in, things look very different. A personal tragedy threatens to destroy all they have carefully built up and only a small miracle, it seems, will save them. . . Ghost Story is a book both haunted and haunting, which asks how we can ever mourn something that hasn't lived. Emotionally resonant, beautifully crafted and ultimately redemptive, it will take you to the heart of suffering and desire. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

According to Mark Penelope Lively (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

31 Oct 1985

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h201mm x w129mm x s15mm 166g ISBN13: 9780140079319 ISBN13: 978-0-14-007931-9 ISBN10: 0140079319 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gilgamesh Joan London (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

13 May 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w130mm x s20mm 263g ISBN13: 9781843541837 ISBN13: 978-1-84354-183-7 ISBN10: 1843541831 EAN: 9781843541837 x Description: 'A beautifully written meditation on life and loss' Harpers & QueenWinner of the Age Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia all under the shadow of an imminent, and soon to be very real, World War II. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose to take through life and what happens when ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary, seismic events. A bestseller in its native Australia, Gilgamesh was awarded the Age Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin award alongside Tim Winton and Richard Flanagan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Salt Earl Lovelace (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

19 Jan 1998

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h196mm x w126mm x s21mm 255g ISBN13: 9780571192946 ISBN13: 978-0-571-19294-6 ISBN10: 0571192947 EAN: 9780571192946 x Description: Salt is an extraordinary tour de force by one of the pre-eminent literary presences in the Caribbean, a novel which explores like none before it the intermingling of cultures that is the contemporary West Indian experience.'Although relatively slim, the novel packs in an astonishing quantity of historical and social detail.There is an element of political didacticism, but it is offset by Lovelace's humorous tone and his seductive, painterly boldness with the language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Highest Tide Jim Lynch (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export and UK open market ed

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

01 May 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747584483 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8448-3 ISBN10: 0747584486 x Description: One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly, he becomes a local celebrity and is pursued by TV crews urging him to explain the phenomenon. His psychic friend Florence predicts that even more astonishing discoveries will precede the highest tide in fifty years. Yet Miles worries more about matters closer to home: will his passion for his ex-babysitter Angie go unrequited? Will his arguing parents divorce? Is everything, even the bay, shifting from him? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Severance Ling Ma (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

The Text Publishing Company

Publisher:

Text Publishing

Pub Date:

26 Nov 2020

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781922330642 ISBN13: 978-1-922330-64-2 ISBN10: 1922330647 EAN: 9781922330642 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Age of Miracles Catherine McCoun (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Mandarin

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

06 Jul 1990

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780749302863 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-0286-3 ISBN10: 0749302860 x Description: Set in medieval England, this tale of romance and intrigue centres on Sister Ingrid, the infirmarian at Greyleigh Convent, who is famous for her miraculous powers of healing. When disgrace forces her to flee the convent, she finds her remedial power labelled as witchcraft. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fall On Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

03 Jul 1997

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s36mm 394g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099740513 ISBN13: 978-0-09-974051-3 ISBN10: 0099740516 EAN: 9780099740513 x Description: Following the curves of the twentieth century, FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father, the sisters -Kathleen, the oldest, a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva; Frances, the drunken rogue and child prostitute; Lily, the pseudo-saint cripple; and Mercedes, the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of events and of their own desires. This is a story of family relationships, racial strife, miracles, attempted murder, birth and eath, and an extraordinary love affair. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Hummingbird Saint Hector MacDonald (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

05 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 544pp h185mm x w114mm x s34mm 286g ISBN13: 9780140294224 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029422-4 ISBN10: 0140294228 x Description: Benjamin Sword Hoppner, philanthropist and visionary, has created his own utopia in the Central American cloud forests, governed by a strict moral code. He's promised financial support to anyone who can satisfy him of their good character. And Mark Weston is determined to do exactly that. Journeying through country still devastated by war, Mark reaches Hoppner's isolated "perfect society", only to discover that his generosity comes with terrible strings attached... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Mind Game Hector MacDonald (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

10 Nov 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h180mm x w110mm x s30mm 328g ISBN13: 9780140294217 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029421-7 ISBN10: 014029421X x Description: Mandanzi, Africa. Paradise on earth. Ben knows that nothing this good comes free. But he's prepared to pay the price. What seems on the surface to be a passionate holiday with his lover is, in fact, the first crucial stage of some ground-breaking research. Ben and his renowned Oxford professor are on the brink of developing a cure for that most disturbing illness - sickness of the mind. Lying on the beach with the bewitching Cara, Ben finds it easy to forget the real purpose of his trip to Africa. Until paradise turns to hell, and suddenly he realises that all the rules he thought he was playing by no longer apply. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Orchard on Fire Shena MacKay (Author) Series:

Harvest Book

Edition:

Imprint:

Mariner Books

Publisher:

Mariner Books

Pub Date:

15 Nov 1997

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) CPSIA choking hazard - 224pp h216mm x w140mm x s15mm 295g ISBN13: 9780156005326 ISBN13: 978-0-15-600532-6 ISBN10: 0156005328 EAN: 9780156005326 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Cal Bernard MacLaverty (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

06 Feb 1998 (05 Feb 2015)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 127g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099767114 ISBN13: 978-0-09-976711-4 ISBN10: 0099767112 EAN: 9780099767114 x Description: Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella.

Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story that unfolds in a land where tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

One by One in the Darkness Deirdre Madden (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

03 Jan 1998

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h195mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9780571175512 ISBN13: 978-0-571-17551-2 ISBN10: 0571175511 EAN: 9780571175512 x Description: One by One in the Darkness is an account of a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and 1970s. The history of both a family and a society, One by One in the Darkness confirms Deirdre Madden's reputation as one of Irish fiction's most outstanding talents.'Her authority when writing on her native Northern Ireland is supreme . . . beautifully written . . . an author with a rare talent . . . haunting and beautiful.' Literary Review'No other book has left me with such a lasting impression of the hurt of Northern Ireland.' Sunday Tribune'Ambitious and wide-ranging . . . skilfully constructed . . . particularly good at the way in which the past constructs the present, how intense memories transfigure current experience . . . A quiet and effective psychological realism.'

Independent on Sunday _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Undertaking Audrey Magee (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

04 Sep 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 256g ISBN13: 9781782391050 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-105-0 ISBN10: 1782391053 EAN: 9781782391050 x Description: A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Undertaking Audrey Magee (Author) Series:

Edition:

Open Market Edition

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

04 Sep 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 162g ISBN13: 9781782391067 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-106-7 ISBN10: 1782391061 EAN: 9781782391067 x Description: Desperate to escape the Eastern front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises 'honeymoon' leave for him and a pension for her should he die on the front. With ten days' leave secured, Peter visits his new wife in Berlin; both are surprised by the attraction that develops between them. When Peter returns to the horror of the front, it is only the dream of Katharina that sustains him as he approaches Stalingrad. Back in Berlin, Katharina, goaded on by her desperate and delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into the Nazi party hierarchy, wedding herself, her young husband and their unborn child to the regime. But when the tide of war turns and Berlin falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their simple dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to...

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Miramar Naguib Mahfouz (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Publisher:

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc

Pub Date:

14 Dec 1992

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 192pp h203mm x w133mm x s13mm 164g ISBN13: 9780385264785 ISBN13: 978-0-385-26478-5 ISBN10: 038526478X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Voices From The Other World Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Random House USA Inc

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Pub Date:

10 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 112pp h1mm x w1mm x s1mm 123g ISBN13: 9781400076666 ISBN13: 978-1-4000-7666-6 ISBN10: 1400076668 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An American Dream Norman Mailer (Author) Series:

1960s A S.

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Flamingo

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

17 Apr 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 288pp h178mm x w111mm 152g 288 illustrations ISBN13: 9780007115280 ISBN13: 978-0-00-711528-0 ISBN10: 0007115288 x Description: War hero, ex-Congressman, a professor of 'popular but somewhat notorious reputation', television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah ('a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz'), Stephen Rojack lived the American Dream. But his enviable life concealed a strange tension, the constant 'itch to jump', and when one day he finally cracks and strangles his luscious wife, he unleashes a personality of undreamt-of ferocity. A wanted murderer, Rojack is suddenly catapulted into an alien world of gangsters, crumbling tenements and downtown bars. Here, he meets Cherry, a small-time singer who ekes out her living in sleazy nightclubs, waiting for a break. She's the woman Rojack falls for, dangerously, desperately, tragically A powerful exploration of one man's quest for depravity, An American Dream shocked the USA on first publication in 1965 with its graphic depictions of sex and violence. One of the key works of twentieth-century American literature, the novel's white-hot prose makes it, for many, Mailer's finest achievement. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dubin's Lives Bernard Malamud (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Aug 1999 (03 Apr 2014)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 364g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099289869 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928986-9 ISBN10: 0099289865 EAN: 9780099289869 x Description: William Dublin is middle-aged, a distinguished biographer seeking increased accomplishment and the key to his inner feelings. His marriage is stable if unexciting, and he lives comfortably with his wife in Vermont. Then his imagination is caught by Fanny, a young girl of twentythree, and he is thrown into an intense, erotic love affair that threatens to destroy his measured, disciplined world and the lives of those around him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Natural Bernard Malamud (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

06 Jun 2002 (03 Apr 2014)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099437024 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943702-4 ISBN10: 0099437023 EAN: 9780099437024 x Description: This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an immense natural gift for playing baseball. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But his first hard-won big chance ends violently, at the hands of a crazy girl, and then it is years before he gets another shot. At last, in a few short seasons, or never, he must achieve the towering reputation that he feels is his right. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Tenants Bernard Malamud (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Aug 1999 (03 Apr 2014)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 117g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099289876 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928987-6 ISBN10: 0099289873 EAN: 9780099289876 x Description: The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier. Then he stumbles on a black man, sitting typing in one of the deserted flats: Willie Spearmint, soul writer. Touchy, hostile and anti-semitic, demanding then denouncing Lesser's critical help with his floridly violent tales of oppression, Spearmint is exactly what Lesser doesn't need - or does he?

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The Oracle Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Author) Series:

Edition:

Unabridged edition

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

06 May 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm x s22mm 251g ISBN13: 9780330437929 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43792-9 ISBN10: 0330437925 EAN: 9780330437929 x Description: Greece at the time of the Colonels, 1973 - An archaeologist discovers a gold Mycenaean vase embellished with images of the last voyage of Ulysses. But his mysterious death and the vase's disappearance remain unexplained for ten years until disturbing signals catalyse different characters into a relentless pursuit for the truth. The Oracle is another action-packed adventure from the bestselling author of the 'Alexander' trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Oracle Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

06 May 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 200pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 185g ISBN13: 9780330438223 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43822-3 ISBN10: 0330438220 EAN: 9780330438223 x Description: Phenomenally successful writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi tells a modern tale inspired by an ancient prophecy _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2007

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 92g ISBN13: 9780141028736 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102873-6 ISBN10: 0141028734 EAN: 9780141028736 x Description: Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude.

'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . .

'Marquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller' Daily Mail 'Marquez is wonderful on the transformative and redemptive powers of love. . . storytelling magic' Tatler

'Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do' Salman Rushie As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr. President, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, News of a Kidnapping, No-one Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Autumn Bridge Takashi Matsuoka (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Arrow Books Ltd

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

02 Jun 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 576pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780099445388 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944538-8 ISBN10: 0099445387 x Description: The year is 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman watches from the window as the city is set alight and a mob runs riot destroying everything they can lay their hands on. She begins to write down the events unfolding around her and the secret history of the Okumichi Clan. Six centuries later the lost scrolls fall into the hands of American missionary Emily Gibson, a new arrival at Edo Harbour and racing from her tragic past. Emily quickly finds herself translating the text, caught up in the gripping tale of ancestry, heroism and forbidden love. At the same time Emily is desperately traying to unravel the complexities in her own life as two men fight for her love. As Emily sifts through the fragile scrolls, she begins to see threads of her own life woven into the ancient writings. As past and present collide, a hidden history comes to life, and with it a secret prophecy that has been shrouded for centuries and may now finally be revealed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Night Listener Armistead Maupin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Oct 2001 (19 Jun 2007)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w127mm x s23mm 251g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552142403 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14240-3 ISBN10: 0552142409 EAN: 9780552142403 x Description: Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years when a publisher sends him proofs of a remarkable book: the memoir of a sickly thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his parents.Now living with his adoptive mother, Donna, Pete Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but a devoted listener of Noone's show. When Noone phones the boy to offer encouragement, it soon becomes clear that Pete sees in this heartsick, middle-aged storyteller the loving father he's always wanted. Thus begins an extraordinary friendship that grows deeper only as the boy's health deteriorates, freeing Noone to unlock his innermost feelings.Then, out of the blue, troubling new questions arise, exploding Noone's comfortable assumptions and causing his ordered existence to spin wildly out of control. As he walks a vertiginous line between truth and illusion, he is finally forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic.As complex and hypnotically engrossing as the best of mysteries, The Night Listener is an astonishing tour de force that moves and challenges Maupin's readers as never before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Internationals Sarah May (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Sep 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 160g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099422457 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942245-7 ISBN10: 009942245X EAN: 9780099422457 x Description: Set in a Macedonian refugee camp during the 1999 Kosovo crisis, The Internationals spans seventy-eight tense days from the commencement of NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia to the withdrawal of Serb forces from Northern Kosovo. As the spotlight of the world's media is turned on a small, landlocked country, an extraordinary cast of aid workers and diplomats finds itself becoming inextricably involved with refugees, advertising executives and an Albanian mayor in ways none of them expected. The weeks pass, temperatures soar and, gradually, the Internationals jettison more and more of the certainties they came with, until the only certainty they're left with is that no form of contraception exists against corruption - least of all purity of motive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The English Harem Anthony McCarten (Author) Series:

Edition:

Media tie-in

Imprint:

Alma Books Ltd

Publisher:

Alma Books Ltd

Pub Date:

15 Dec 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 389pp h195mm x w125mm 260g ISBN13: 9781846880001 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-000-1 ISBN10: 1846880009 This Product is Replaced By: 9781846880636 x Description: This is a publication to coincide with a major new ITV drama starring Martine McCutcheon and Art Malik. In this hilarious, provocative and highly topical story of food, love and Islam, Anthony McCarten exposes the flaws inherent to our multicultural society, and explores the nature of racism from a startlingly original angle. Supermarket checkout girl Tracy Pringle has a very lively imagination indeed. In front of her, as she blip-blips herself into a daydream, walk past not boring housewives with screaming children or tired office clerks, but the likes of Lord Byron, Lawrence of Arabia and Princess Leia. It comes as no surprise, then, that she turns a blind eye when Her Majesty herself pops a packet of Mr Kipling's Bakewell tarts into her handbag without paying. Obviously, the management sees it differently, and Tracy is given the sack on the spot and forced to find herself another job.

But nothing can prepare her for the new life that awaits her at the Taste of Persia restaurant, where she is flung headlong into a clash of cultures, languages, dinner plates, religions and a rather tricky domestic arrangement... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Solar Bones Mike McCormack (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

04 May 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 184g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781786891297 ISBN13: 978-1-78689-129-7 ISBN10: 1786891298 EAN: 9781786891297 x Description: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart.

Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Graywolf Silver Anthology Fiona McCrae (Edited by) Scott Walker (Edited by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Graywolf Press,U.S.

Publisher:

Graywolf Press,U.S.

Pub Date:

01 Jun 1999

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 256pp h228mm x w152mm Illustrations ISBN13: 9781555972899 ISBN13: 978-1-55597-289-9 ISBN10: 1555972896 x Description: In 1999, Graywolf will celebrate 25 years of publishing thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature. This remarkable anthology showcases many of the extraordinary writers who have helped shape Graywolf's first quarter century, including Jane Kenyon, Sven Birkerts, Tess Gallagher, Charles Baxter, and William Stafford. Groundbreaking titles such as Dana Gioia's Can Poetry Matter? and Guillermo Gomez-Pena's Warrior for Gringostoika are represented, along with Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write, the book that has become one of the great success stories of small press publishing. The anthology also includes an essay by founder Scott Walker on Graywolf's early days as a small letterpress publisher. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In Between the Sheets Ian McEwan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Jun 1997 (02 Jun 2016)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099754718 ISBN13: 978-0-09-975471-8 ISBN10: 0099754711 EAN: 9780099754718 x Description: The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan.A twotiming pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress - passive, yet beautiful - but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.'Resonant and frightening...totally original' Observer'Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Saturday Ian McEwan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Jan 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h177mm x w111mm x s20mm 190g ISBN13: 9780099497165 ISBN13: 978-0-09-949716-5 ISBN10: 0099497166 EAN: 9780099497165

x Description: Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man- a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat.

Later, Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him.

Towards the end of a day rich in incident and filled with Perowne's celebrations of life's pleasures, his family gathers for a reunion. But with the sudden appearance of Baxter, Perowne's earlier fears seem about to be realised _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Amongst Women John McGahern (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

07 May 1991

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9780571161607 ISBN13: 978-0-571-16160-7 ISBN10: 057116160X EAN: 9780571161607 x Description: Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence.

Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Stag Hunt Anthony Mcgowan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Pub Date:

03 Jan 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h19mm x w111mm x s176mm 186g ISBN13: 9780340830468 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83046-8 ISBN10: 0340830468 EAN: 9780340830468 x Description: The smiling one; the one who hurt; the shy one; the one who cried; the one who kissed - that is how he remembers the gang of boys who tormented him when he was a child. Now twenty years have passed and it is time to make them pay. But into the finely wrought net stumbles one man who had nothing to do with the nastiness in that minor public school. Matthew Moriarty carries demons of his own, but when Dominic Chance invites him along to a stag weekend in a remote country house, lost on a fold of the country beyond the reach of mobile telephones, he could never imagine the horror that awaits. Or the beauty. "Stag Hunt" tells the story of ghosts, of demons, of revenge, of desire; and finally of the possibility of redemption through love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

360 Flip Molly McGrann (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

03 Jun 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h197mm x w130mm x s19mm 195g ISBN13: 9780330412407 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41240-7 ISBN10: 033041240X EAN: 9780330412407 x Description: Atomic View was a 1960s fantasy - a vision of the suburban American Dream. Now it is the 1990s. Optimism and aspiration no longer hold sway in a world where days are spent surfing the Internet, spying on neighbours and working out on the Stairmaster . . . Babo White is a teenager obsessed with his skateboard, lovingly neglected by his distracted, overworked lawyer parents and ignored by his older brother, Mitch. Home from his smart, wealthy Connecticut college, Mitch is trying to figure out how to make it to Manhatten without, crucially, having to do something so mundane as finding himself a job. 360 Flip is centred around Babo and Mitch's family. Molly Mcgrann beautifully captures the surface quietness of the inhabitants of Atomic View, the dreams of those who built it and the tensions which bubble and spit within. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

From Notting Hill With Love . . . Actually Ali McNamara (Author) Series:

The Notting Hill Series

Edition:

Imprint:

Sphere

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

19 Nov 2010

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h195mm x w128mm x s29mm 308g ISBN13: 9780751544954 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-4495-4 ISBN10: 0751544957 EAN: 9780751544954 x Description: 'Sparky, fun and endearing' - Katie Fforde'Joyous and carefree, a souffle of a book that will lift the spirits of anybody who ever daydreamed about a different, more glam life' - Bernadette Strachan------------------------------She was just a girl, standing in front of a boy . . . wishing he looked more like Hugh Grant.Scarlett loves the movies. But does she love sensible fiance David just as much? With a big white wedding on the horizon, Scarlett really should have decided by now . . . When she has the chance to house-sit in Notting Hill - the setting of one of her favourite movies - Scarlett jumps at the chance. But living life like a movie is trickier than it seems, especially when her new neighbour Sean is so irritating. And so irritatingly handsome, too.Scarlett soon finds herself starring in a romantic comedy of her very own: but who will end up as the leading man?A fabulously fun romantic comedy debut, referencing all those much-loved chick flick classics: Four Weddings; Sleepless in Seattle; When Harry Met Sally, to name just a few! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fresh Mark McNay (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

03 Apr 2008

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 282pp h197mm x w129mm x s19mm 205g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847670823 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-082-3 ISBN10: 1847670822 EAN: 9781847670823 x Description: Today, Sean's brother Archie gets out of jail on early release. Which would be great if Archie weren't a little loose in the head. And if Sean didn't still owe him a grand.

Testing the boundaries of brotherly love, Fresh is white-knuckle ride that brings to life one unforgettable day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Almost English Charlotte Mendelson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

27 Mar 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h197mm x w128mm x s26mm 297g ISBN13: 9781447220008 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-2000-8 ISBN10: 1447220005 EAN: 9781447220008 x Description: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there . . . In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider.At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. She is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even be. And as a semi-Hungarian Londoner, who is she? In the meantime, her mother Laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she'd expect back in her life. She isn't noticing that, at Combe Abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrong. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Loving Che Ana Menendez (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Book Publishing Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

04 Oct 2004

Out of print

Publishing Status:

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w126mm x s16mm 180g b/w photos ISBN13: 9780747265085 ISBN13: 978-0-7472-6508-5 ISBN10: 0747265089 EAN: 9780747265085 x Description: In the aftermath of Castro's revolution, a man flees Cuba with his daughter's baby, and finds, pinned on its clothes, three lines of a Pablo Neruda love poem. Decades later, that baby returns to Havana as a young woman; armed with only this snatch of verse, she searches, apparently in vain, for the mysterious mother who abandoned her. On her return to America she receives a package - a collection of tattered photographs of Che Guevara, and a letter, apparently from her mother, which documents a passionate affair with the hero of the revolution. Now, the daughter must set out for Cuba once more, to find out whether this story is true or a ravishing fantasy, bred out of the savage and surreal drama of Cuba's history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Talk: A Novel in Dialogue Corey Mesler (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Livingston Press (AL)

Publisher:

Livingston Press (AL)

Pub Date:

25 Jul 2002

Publishing Status:

Unknown

Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) Colour of cover - Black 208pp h230mm x w156mm x s15mm 308g ISBN13: 9780942979862 ISBN13: 978-0-942979-86-2 ISBN10: 0942979869 EAN: 9780942979862 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

26 Sep 1997

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm 250g ISBN13: 9780747534969 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-3496-9 ISBN10: 0747534969 This Product is Replaced By: 9780747599258 x Description: It is just months before the Nazi occupation of Poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour. He is saved by the geologist and humanist Athos Roussos, who takes him to his Greek island home where he becomes his student. But the trauma of Jakob's early life refuses to leave him. Living forever in the shadow of the Holocaust, although Jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Holiday Stanley Middleton (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Five Leaves Publications

Publisher:

Five Leaves Publications

Pub Date:

01 Aug 1999

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h200mm ISBN13: 9780907123439 ISBN13: 978-0-907123-43-9 ISBN10: 0907123430 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A View from the Bridge and All My Sons: All My Sons Arthur Miller (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

25 May 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 136g ISBN13: 9780141183503 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118350-3 ISBN10: 0141183500 x Description: Powerful, passionate and frighteningly relevant, the drama of Arthur Miller deals in the hard currency of 'social' realism and tragedy. "All My Sons" (1947), which brought Miller his first major success, is a merciless exposure of wartime profiteering and the capitalist ethic. The ideological conflict of father and son is a compelling one, and points to the way Miller develops his later drama, where social issues are tempered and tautened by the theme of personal disintegration. Eddie, the hero of "A View from the Bridge" (1955), is an illiterate longshoreman. His inexorable progress towards self-discovery and fall stirs the emotions with the same painful intensity as the play jolts the intellect. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tropic Of Capricorn Henry Miller (Author) Series:

Harper Perennial Modern Edition: Classics

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

03 May 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w138mm x s21mm 232g ISBN13: 9780007204458 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720445-8 ISBN10: 0007204450 EAN: 9780007204458 This Product Replaces: 9780006545842 x Description: The controversial, erotic and hilarious companion to the legendary Tropic of Cancer, in a smart new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Miller's early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spent amongst 'a galaxy of screwballs' to frantic, hilarious years of dead-end jobs and innumerable erotic adventures. Irreverent and ironic, Tropic of Capricorn is both a comic portrait of the irrepressible Miller himself and a scathing attack on respectable America, the very foundations of which he hoped to shatter. The publication of Tropic of Capricorn and its sister-volume Tropic of Cancer in Paris in the 1930s was hailed

by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The books were subsequently banned in the UK and the USA for nearly thirty years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lost in the Forest Sue Miller (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export and UK open market ed

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

03 Apr 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747582915 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8291-5 ISBN10: 0747582912 x Description: One minute John is the cornerstone of Eva's world, rock to his two teenage stepdaughters and his own son Theo; the next he is tossed through the air in a traffic accident, and killed. His sudden death changes everything. Eva struggles with the desolation of loneliness, finding herself drawn back to her untrustworthy ex-husband; Emily, the eldest daughter, grapples with her new-found independence and responsibility. Little Theo can only begin to fathom the permanence of his father's death. But for the middle child Daisy, John's absence opens up a whole world of confusion. Just at the onset of adolescence and blossoming sexuality, Daisy is exposed to the terrifying duplicity of life, the instability that hovers just beyond the safety of parental love, and the powerlessness of that love to protect or even console her. In steps a man only too willing to take advantage of her emotions.

"Lost in the Forest" is a powerful and gorgeously layered testament to the fluidity of life and the web of connections that bind us, divide us, and drive us on.

A finely observed portrait of marriage and family; an intensely sensual journey through the consuming realms of grief and sex; and an unforgettable evocation of adolescent yearning and vulnerability, this is Sue Miller at her inimitable best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

While I Was Gone Sue Miller (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export and UK open market ed

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

03 Apr 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747584612 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8461-2 ISBN10: 0747584613

x Description: Thirty years ago, Jo Becker's bohemian life ended when she found her best friend brutally murdered in the house they shared in Cambridge. Now, Jo has everything: work she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, and a beautiful home. But, when an old friend settles in her small town, the fabric of her life begins to unravel, and Jo hesitantly enters a relationship that returns her to the darkest moments of her past, imperilling all that she loves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The World Below Sue Miller (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export and UK open market ed

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

03 Apr 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747584582 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8458-2 ISBN10: 0747584583 x Description: Catherine Hubbard is at a crossroads in her life. Twice divorced, she has three children who are now grown up and scattered. Then news comes that she has inherited her grandmother Georgia's home in Vermont. There, Catherine finds not only the ghosts of her own past but those of Georgia as well, whose diaries reveal a deep secret and a tragic misunderstanding. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Books

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Pub Date:

01 May 1997

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h210mm x w133mm x s17mm 267g ISBN13: 9780679781271 ISBN13: 978-0-679-78127-1 ISBN10: 0679781277 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Family Matters Rohinton Mistry (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

07 Apr 2003

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h199mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571215539 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21553-9 ISBN10: 057121553X EAN: 9780571215539 x Description: Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young sons. The effect of the new responsibility on Yezad, who is already besieged by financial worries, pushes him into a scheme of deception. This sets in motion a series of events - a great unravelling and a revelation of the family's lovetorn past - that leads to the narrative's final outcome. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Such a Long Journey Rohinton Mistry (Author) Series:

Faber Fiction Classics

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

09 Apr 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h178mm x w111mm 230g ISBN13: 9780571209538 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20953-8 ISBN10: 057120953X This Product is Replaced By: 9780571230570 x Description: The gathering clouds of the Indo-Pakistan War impinge on the lives of Gustad Noble, a Bombay doctor, and his family. His dreams, although modest, are denied him as he realizes he is not in control of events. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tales from Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

06 Jul 1992

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9780571167036 ISBN13: 978-0-571-16703-6 ISBN10: 0571167039 EAN: 9780571167036 This Product is Replaced By: 9780571230563 x Description: Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time we reach the final story we are as familiar with the people of Firozsha Baag as we are with our own neighbours.

The crowded, throbbing life of India is brilliantly captured in this series of stories. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Deep Valley Malice Kirk Mitchell (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Avon Books

Publisher:

Avon Books

Pub Date:

01 Mar 1996

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h175mm x w108mm x s20mm 141g ISBN13: 9780380776627 ISBN13: 978-0-380-77662-7 ISBN10: 0380776626 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Insular Possession Timothy Mo (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Paddleless Press

Publisher:

Paddleless Press

Pub Date:

01 Jul 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: Hong Kong Paperback / softback 728pp h198mm x w127mm 587g ISBN13: 9780952419389 ISBN13: 978-0-9524193-8-9 ISBN10: 0952419386 EAN: 9780952419389

x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Redundancy Of Courage Timothy Mo (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Paddleless Press

Publisher:

Paddleless Press

Pub Date:

01 Jul 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: Hong Kong Paperback / softback 446pp h198mm x w129mm 362g ISBN13: 9780952419341 ISBN13: 978-0-9524193-4-1 ISBN10: 0952419343 EAN: 9780952419341 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dublin Sean Moncrieff (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Doubleday

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 May 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h234mm x w156mm ISBN13: 9780385602259 ISBN13: 978-0-385-60225-9 ISBN10: 0385602251 x Description: Seething with sex, drugs and violence, this is a caustically humorous thriller by debut author Sean Moncrieff. It exposes the side of Dublin that tourists never see. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

02 Jan 1996

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h197mm x w130mm x s37mm 480g ISBN13: 9781857991871 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-187-1 ISBN10: 1857991877 EAN: 9781857991871 x Description: The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh.

He finds cult success as a star of the silver screen winning and breaking many hearts along the way, mixing with characters good and bad, real and unreal. But everything he does with panache as he makes his way to an appointment with the twentieth century's blackest moment. Book four of the Pyat quartet is in preparation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Laughter of Carthage Michael Moorcock (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

07 Apr 1994

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 608pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 490g ISBN13: 9781857990485 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-048-5 ISBN10: 185799048X EAN: 9781857990485 x Description: This is the 2nd in the Pyat series.Maxim leaves Russia and travels Europe and eventually to America...his adventures are comic as well as terrifying! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mother London Michael Moorcock (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Scribner

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Pub Date:

01 May 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm 700g ISBN13: 9780684861418 ISBN13: 978-0-684-86141-8 ISBN10: 0684861410 x Description: Three hospital outpatients all find that they hear voices - the voices of London's past. As they explore the city of their present day, they also explore its recent past and its forgotten people. Through the lives of those on the fringe of society, we learn what it is like - and what it has always been like - to live in the great, sprawling, polyphonic, multicoloured capital. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Doctor's Wife Brian Moore (Author) Series:

Paladin Books

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Flamingo

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

28 Mar 1994

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h197mm x w130mm x s14mm 192g ISBN13: 9780586087398 ISBN13: 978-0-586-08739-8 ISBN10: 0586087397 x Description: Shortlisted for the 1976 Booker Prize, this is a novel about an ordinary woman, in the middle of her life, seized by love for a younger man.

The author also wrote "The Colour of Blood", "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" and "The Doctor's Wife". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lies of Silence Brian Moore (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

19 Nov 1992 (07 Jan 2010)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099998105 ISBN13: 978-0-09-999810-5 ISBN10: 0099998106 EAN: 9780099998105 x Description: When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him with absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Big Little Lies: The No.1 bestseller behind the award-winning TV series Liane Moriarty (Author) Series:

Edition:

Media tie-in

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

31 Jan 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 341g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781405931564 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3156-4 ISBN10: 1405931566 EAN: 9781405931564 x Description: DISCOVER THE GRIPPING NO. 1 BESTSELLER BEHIND THE AWARD WINNING HBO SENSATION STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN & MERYL STREEP____________Perfect families, perfect houses, perfect lives.Three mothers, Jane, Madeline and Celeste appear to have it all, until they find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control . . .Single mum Jane has just moved to town. She's got her little boy in tow - plus a secret she's been carrying for five years.On the first day of the school run she meets Madeline - a force to be reckoned with, who remembers everything and forgives no one - and Celeste, the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but is inexplicably ill at ease.They both take Jane under their wing - while careful to keep their own secrets under wraps.But a minor incident involving the children of all three women rapidly escalates: playground whispers become spiteful rumours until no one can tell the truth from the lies . . .It was always going to end in tears, but how did it end in murder?_____________'Blame and guilt, forgiveness and retribution, love and betrayal. A tense, pageturning story . . . a great read' Mail on Sunday'Blending romance, comedy and mystery, this is a wonderful book - full of brains, guts and heart' Sunday Mirror'A hell of a good book. Funny and scary' Stephen King'Brilliant, standout, superbly clever. Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly' Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Nine Perfect Strangers: The Number One Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

07 Mar 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 312g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781405919463 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1946-3 ISBN10: 1405919469 EAN: 9781405919463 x Description: PERFECT LIVES OR PERFECT LIES? THE UNPUTDOWNABLE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK, FROM THE AUTHOR OF HBO'S AWARD WINNING BIG LITTLE LIESRead the addictive bestseller soon to be a major Hulu series starring Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Regina Hall, Many Jacinto, Bobby Cannavale and Luke Evans.'A super-suspenseful page-turner' Mail on Sunday_____________Nine perfect strangers, each hiding an imperfect life.A luxury retreat cut off from the outside world.Ten days that promise to change your life.But some promises - like some lives - are perfect lies . . .Nine Perfect Strangers is the gripping, funny and thrilling bestseller from Liane Moriarty.__________'Fantastic' Times'The twist blew my mind' Marian Keyes'The suspense keeps building in an enjoyably zany thriller' Guardian'Original, suspenseful, downright brilliant' Clare Mackintosh'One of the funniest, most original and well-written books I have read' 5***** Reader Review'Will grip you from the first page' Sunday Express'Had me utterly hooked' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

04 Mar 1999 (07 Jan 2016)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099759911 ISBN13: 978-0-09-975991-1 ISBN10: 0099759918 EAN: 9780099759911 x Description: Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterised her writing.'She revealed the sins of her nation, while profoundly elevating its canon. She suffused the telling of blackness with beauty, whilst steering us away from the perils of the white gaze. That's why she told her stories. And why we will never, ever stop reading them' Afua Hirsch 'Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures' Washington Post'When she arrived, with her first novel, The Bluest Eye, she immediately re-ordered the American literary landscape' Ben Okri Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paradise Toni Morrison (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Mar 1999 (03 Mar 2016)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s129mm 236g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099768210 ISBN13: 978-0-09-976821-0 ISBN10: 0099768216 EAN: 9780099768210 x Description: Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity.

Starkly evoking the clashes that have bedevilled the American century: between race and racelessness; religion and magic; promiscuity and fidelity; individuality and belonging. 'When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose' Hilary Mantel, Spectator'Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the 20th century, to a place where it could finally embrace the subtleties and contradictions of the great stain of race which has blighted the republic since its inception' Caryl Phillips, Guardian BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sula Toni Morrison (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

07 May 1998 (07 Jan 2016)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 150g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099760016 ISBN13: 978-0-09-976001-6 ISBN10: 0099760010 EAN: 9780099760016 x Description: 'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength, Sula is a woman of uncompromising power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down.'What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age' Alice Walker, Guardian BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Girl For All Seasons Camilla Morton (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2007

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h206mm x w162mm x s46mm 772g Line illustrations throughout ISBN13: 9780340922590 ISBN13: 978-0-340-92259-0 ISBN10: 0340922591 EAN: 9780340922590 x Description: If your resolutions tend to look much the same from one year to another and you are suffering from the suspicion that someone, somewhere is having more fun that you, then you need something to revitalise your lust for life. A YEAR IN HIGH HEELS is here to help. This book will guide you through the months with a perfectly co-ordinated combination of culture and challenges. With a monthly muse to inspire, and a suggested title for that soon-to-be-formed book club, dumbing down is so last season. Erin O'Connor, Diane von Furstenberg, Matthew Williamson and others share their secrets about their favourite places - so the next time you check in you'll know what to check out - while Dita von Teese, Anya Hindmarch and Christian Lacroix show you how to undress, how to go green and how to appreciate opera. Eclectic, practical and fantastical, A YEAR IN HIGH HEELS is crammed with fascinating stories, inspiring ideas and surprisingly sensible advice. Forget who, when, why and what to wear. Get ready to wow! Foreword by Manolo Blahnik. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Eileen: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Ottessa Moshfegh (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

15 Aug 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784701468 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-146-8 ISBN10: 1784701467 EAN: 9781784701468 x Description: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016* Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes.When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. But soon, Eileen's affection for Rebecca pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.'Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ghost Wall Sarah Moss (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Granta Books

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

06 Jun 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 119g ISBN13: 9781783784462 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-446-2 ISBN10: 1783784466 EAN: 9781783784462

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Elmet: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Fiona Mozley (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

JM Originals

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Pub Date:

10 Aug 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h216mm x w136mm x s28mm 360g ISBN13: 9781473660540 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-6054-0 ISBN10: 1473660548 EAN: 9781473660540 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AND THE PFD/SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD AND THE POLARI PRIZE'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS'Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional children's story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The Godfather' Sunday TimesDaniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned menacing and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them in the woods with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. Cathy was more like their father: fierce and full of simmering anger. Daniel was more like their mother: gentle and kind. Sometimes, their father disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes.

But when he was at home, he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.Brutal and beautiful in equal measure, Elmet is a compelling portrayal of a family living on the fringes of contemporary society, as well as a gripping exploration of the disturbing actions people are capable of when pushed to their limits. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Elmet: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Fiona Mozley (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Pub Date:

08 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h203mm x w183mm x s20mm 262g ISBN13: 9781473676497 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-7649-7 ISBN10: 1473676495 EAN: 9781473676497 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AND THE PFD/SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD AND THE POLARI PRIZE 'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS'Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional children's story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The Godfather' Sunday TimesDaniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned menacing and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them in the woods with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. Cathy was more like their father: fierce and full of simmering anger. Daniel was more like their mother: gentle and kind. Sometimes, their father disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes.

But when he was at home, he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.Brutal and beautiful in equal measure, Elmet is a compelling

portrayal of a family living on the fringes of contemporary society, as well as a gripping exploration of the disturbing actions people are capable of when pushed to their limits. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Peacock Emporium Jojo Moyes (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

28 Feb 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h179mm x w110mm x s28mm 250g n/a ISBN13: 9780340830086 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83008-6 ISBN10: 0340830085 EAN: 9780340830086 x Description: In the Sixties, Athene Forster is the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she is also beautiful, spoilt and out of control. When she agrees to marry dashing young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme her parents breathe a sigh of relief. But within two years rumours have begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman. Thirty five years on, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her glamorous mother's legacy. At odds with her father and his second wife, struggling in a stalled marriage, she returns to the place of her birth to find that the ghost of her mother, in differing ways, still haunts them all. The only place she finds comfort is in her shop, The Peacock Emporium, a coffee shop-cumcurio store, decorated in her own image, which provides a haven for other misfits in the town. There she makes perhaps the first real friends of her life, including Alejandro, a male midwife, escaping his own ghosts in Argentina. But the spectre of Athene and the shop itself combine to set in place a chain of tragic events, forcing Suzanna to confront the feelings she has disguised for so long - and her family, in their varying ways, finally to deal with the events of the past. And Suzanna discovers the key to her history, and her happiness, may have been in front of her all along. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Christodora Tim Murphy (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

27 Jul 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w131mm x s28mm 304g ISBN13: 9781509818594 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-1859-4 ISBN10: 1509818596 EAN: 9781509818594 x Description: 'An engrossing and inspiring story of loss, love and hope, set against a backdrop of art, activism and addiction.' ObserverThe Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbour, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly's and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, the couple's adopted son, Mateo, grows to appreciate the opportunities for both self-realization and oblivion that New York offers. As the junkies and protestors of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s and they, in turn, to the wealthy residents of the crowded, glass-towered city of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life the ever-changing city itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies John Murray (Author) Series:

Edition:

Open market ed

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Mar 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h181mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780141017600 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101760-0 ISBN10: 0141017600

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The Mark and the Void Paul Murray (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Feb 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h213mm x w133mm x s30mm 334g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241953860 ISBN13: 978-0-241-95386-0 ISBN10: 0241953863 EAN: 9780241953860 x Description: WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2016A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy DiesWhat links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an ex-KGB man? You guessed it . . . The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude's employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out.The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Happy Accidents Tiffany Murray (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

04 Oct 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm 538g ISBN13: 9780007183661 ISBN13: 978-0-00-718366-1 ISBN10: 0007183666 x Description: Kate Happy's favourite books are Jane Eyre and 'Salem's Lot, because they're English and American and so is she. It's the early eighties and Kate is being brought up by her grandparents on their huge sprawling farm, somewhere between England and Wales. Kate Happy's favourite books are Jane Eyre and 'Salem's Lot, because they're English and American and so is she. It's the early eighties and Kate is being brought up by her grandparents on their huge sprawling farm, somewhere between England and Wales. Gran has been homesick for Coney Island for thirty-eight years, hating her husband but determinedly donning her best pink Chanel suit and high heels to step out into the muck-splattered farmyard. Grandpa is bonkers, an ex-naval Captain who wanders round the house shouting sea-faring commands. Mum's gone AWOL since she ran over Kate's dad in her soft-top Triumph Spitfire. And are those really Dad's ashes in a Hellmann's mayonnaise jar in the attic? This is not a pastoral and isolated rural Britain.

This is a time of The Specials and Ghost Town; Friday The 13th, and the riots to come.

Crackling with the darkest of dark humour, brimming with crazy ancestors and closely guarded secrets, HAPPY ACCIDENTS is a wonderful first novel that confirms Tiffany Murray as a rising star of British fiction _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Annotated Lolita Vladimir Nabokov (Author) Series:

Penguin Modern Classics Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

27 Jul 2000

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 372g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141185040 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118504-0 ISBN10: 014118504X EAN: 9780141185040 x Description: When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. Alfred Appel, Jr. also provides fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings and a delightful biographical vignette of Nabokov. The annotations themselves were prepared in consultation with Nabokov while newly identified allusions were confirmed by him during the final years of his life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ladies Coupe Anita Nair (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Jun 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 224g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099428978 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942897-8 ISBN10: 0099428970 EAN: 9780099428978 x Description: Meet Akhilandeswari, Akhila for short: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the five women she is travelling with the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India, revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with husbands, mothers, friends, employers and children are the same the world over. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

On Shaky Ground J.J. Nance (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Avon Books

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Pub Date:

31 Dec 1998

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United States Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780380707430 ISBN13: 978-0-380-70743-0 ISBN10: 0380707438 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Shattered Icon Bill Napier (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Book Publishing Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

02 Feb 2004

Out of print

Publishing Status:

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h177mm x w110mm x s25mm 200g None ISBN13: 9780747267263 ISBN13: 978-0-7472-6726-3 ISBN10: 074726726X EAN: 9780747267263 x Description: As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal and twelve hours later he is brutally murdered, Harry's peace of mind is shattered. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to steal it? He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to uncover the mysteries.

The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, and the thread of history takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades. And he finally learns that at stake are millions of dollars and a plan to trigger nothing less than war... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko Patrick Neate (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

30 Mar 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h180mm x w110mm x s25mm 211g ISBN13: 9780140292169 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029216-9 ISBN10: 0140292160 EAN: 9780140292169 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Starter For Ten David Nicholls (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

21 Sep 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w130mm x s32mm 340g ISBN13: 9780340924648 ISBN13: 978-0-340-92464-8 ISBN10: 0340924640 EAN: 9780340924648 x Description: It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic wouldbe actress, Alice Harbinson. When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. He's going to win the game, at any cost, because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge ...STARTER FOR TEN is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. Are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

White Male Heart Ruaridh Nicoll (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jun 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 267g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552999014 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99901-4 ISBN10: 0552999016 EAN: 9780552999014 x Description: In the magnificent wilderness that is the Scottish Highlands, Aaron and Hugh have been friends for as long as they can remember, bound by a shared affinity for their surroundings and an increasing sense of alienation from the remote, close-knit community that is their home.But when a young woman - fleeing life in the city and a broken love affair - moves to the area, the ties that bind the boys are slowly, irrevocably stretched to nearbreaking point. And as the strain on Aaron and Hugh's friendship builds, so the violence that is endemic in the land begins to infect them both. Driven to the very edge of reason, they turn on their world to vent their frustration and anger and hurt in the only way they know, embarking on a spree of quite horrific destruction... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The End of the Day: shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Claire North (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Orbit

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

03 Aug 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h197mm x w129mm x s27mm 300g ISBN13: 9780356507330 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50733-0 ISBN10: 0356507335 EAN: 9780356507330 x Description: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD***'Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache' Sunday Times'Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive" Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4'Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful' Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie.Charlie meets everyone - but only once. Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. Either way, this is going to be the most important meeting of your life.The End of the Day is the stunning new story from Claire North, the voice behind the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.'Reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer' Locus'Every one of the chapters is shaped with philosophical panache' Guardian'Compelling . . . keeps the surprises coming until the very end' San Francisco ChronicleWorks by Claire North:Novels:The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August TouchThe Sudden Appearance of HopeThe End of the Day 84K The GameshouseThe Pursuit of William AbbeyDigital novellas:The Serpent: Gameshouse Novella 1The Thief: Gameshouse Novella 2The Master: Gameshouse Novella 3 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Unnumbered Sam North (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Scribner

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Pub Date:

03 May 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780743248525 ISBN13: 978-0-7432-4852-5 ISBN10: 074324852X x

Description: Contemporary London. You know what that's like. But there's another London too, another race: the streets are swirling with them. They have no jobs, no driving licence, no social security, no identity of any sort. They pass us by every day; the unnumbered. Nio and Mila are two of the unnumbered. Nio the dreamer has built a home for himself in Coldfall Woods. Mila the realist has just bought herself an identity, and works as a checkout girl. It's a start: their start. Mila's going to reach the stars some day. They can feel it in the air. Lucas Tooth can sense it too. He works his charm on all these women; the hopeful, the sad, the desperate. But only when they feel the fear does it bring him the pleasure. And now it's Mila's turn.

Together, Nio and Mila will take on this London and all it can throw at them. But it is not an easy city. It exacts a hard tribute. The city has brought them together. The city could tear them apart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tapping the Source Kem Nunn (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

No Exit Press

Publisher:

Oldcastle Books Ltd

Pub Date:

09 Jul 1998

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 308pp h198mm x w129mm 270g ISBN13: 9781901982329 ISBN13: 978-1-901982-32-9 ISBN10: 1901982327 x Description: People came to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the ultimate high & the perfect wave. Ike Tucker came to look for his sister & for the men who may have murdered her. When he looked into the shadows he made some disturbing discoveries.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Flann O'Brien (Author) Series:

Harper Perennial Modern Edition: Classics

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

16 Apr 2007

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007247172 ISBN13: 978-0-00-724717-2 ISBN10: 0007247176 EAN: 9780007247172 x Description: A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of `At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.

A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, `The Third Policeman' is comparable only to `Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.

Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, `The Third Policeman' is unique in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels Kenzaburo Oe (Author) John Nathan (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Marion Boyars Publishers Publisher: Ltd

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Mar 2000

Active

Publishing Status:

Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 276pp h210mm ISBN13: 9780714530482 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-3048-2 ISBN10: 0714530484

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All For You: An irresistible summer read by the #1 bestselling author! Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Pub Date:

10 Apr 2012 (09 Jul 2015) Publishing Status:

Headline Publishing Group Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h196mm x w164mm x s34mm 360g ISBN13: 9780755343874 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-4387-4 ISBN10: 0755343875 EAN: 9780755343874 x Description: Sheila O'Flanagan's No. 1 bestseller ALL FOR YOU is a wonderfully engaging read not to be missed by fans of Lisa Jewell and Jane Green. 'A good summer read' HeatAs TV's favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn't foresee is that her own life is about to hit a stormy patch. With a string of failed relationships behind her, surely history isn't about to repeat itself with her beloved Ken? To add fuel to the fire, her career-woman mother is returning to Dublin. Deanna has never approved of Lainey's decisions about men, and her mother's views are the last thing Lainey wants to hear now!Yet is there more to her mother than she knows? Uncovering some long-concealed family secrets, Lainey begins to reassess her life. Is the happy-ever-after she's always dreamed of really what she wants after all?What readers are saying about All For You: 'As usual, Sheila O'Flanagan never fails to entertain. I would recommend this highly' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'A brilliant read. Well written and researched and no idea how it would end - her best book by far' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Unputdownable - I loved this book!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bad Behaviour: A captivating tale of friendship, romance and revenge Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

01 May 2008 (14 May 2015)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h198mm x w130mm x s41mm 338g ISBN13: 9780755332182 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-3218-2 ISBN10: 0755332180 EAN: 9780755332182 x Description: Sheila O'Flanagan's bestseller BAD BEHAVIOUR is an irresistible tale of friendship, love and sweet revenge, not to be missed by readers of Lisa Jewell and Marian Keyes. Reviewers love Sheila's books: 'An exciting love story with a deliciously romantic denouement' Sunday ExpressDarcey and Nieve were best friends for life. Until Nieve stole the heart of Aidan, the boy Darcey had fallen in love with while Nieve was travelling. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye, and Darcey had seen the ring. For the next ten years she's been haunted by the memory of her humiliation. No career success, no comfort her eccentric but loving family can offer, not even (short-lived) marriage to Neil, can console her. And then the invitation comes: to the wedding of Aidan and Nieve, neither of whom she's seen since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They're coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland's most expensive hotel. Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? And can the past be put to rest at last?What readers are saying about Bad Behaviour: 'Read it from cover to cover in two days and loved every minute. Excellent' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'Thoroughly enjoyable - a cut above the ditzy chic-lit. A good bit of substance to the story, excellent characterisation and a damn good read. Keep 'em coming!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Wonderful and totally absorbing. This book is a MUST for the romantics' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Another lovely book by Sheila O'Flanagan! I love the gentle flow of the book and the characters she creates' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Better Together: 'Involving, intriguing and hugely enjoyable' Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Pub Date:

09 Apr 2013 (09 Jul 2015) Publishing Status:

Headline Publishing Group Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 512pp h197mm x w130mm x s33mm 345g ISBN13: 9780755378418 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-7841-8 ISBN10: 0755378415 EAN: 9780755378418 x Description: Sheridan Gray has discovered a secret. Sharing it would get her career back on track. But it would also hurt those she loves...An unputdownable novel from bestselling author of THE MISSING WIFE and WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Marian Keyes. When Sheridan loses her job as a journalist at Dublin's biggest newspaper, she's determined to come back fighting. Forced to take a position in a small country town, this seems impossible... until she discovers that the closer she gets to a certain handsome man in the town, the tougher it is to expose their secrets. When it comes to love or success, will Sheridan go with her heart or her head?What readers are saying about Better Together: 'Her best book ever! An involving, intriguing and hugely enjoyable read' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'A beautiful entwining story of love set in Ireland.

This book is unputdownable as the story is thoroughly engrossing' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'You feel like you are part of the story and not just someone reading the book. Another great story from Sheila O'Flanagan' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'A beautifully told story, well worth reading' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

My Mother's Secret: A warm family drama full of humour and heartache Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

10 Mar 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h197mm x w163mm x s31mm 347g ISBN13: 9781472210708 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-1070-8 ISBN10: 1472210700 EAN: 9781472210708 x Description: Sheila O'Flanagan's MY MOTHER'S SECRET is a thought-provoking and unputdownable novel about a family reeling from the news that nothing about their parents' marriage is what they believed it to be. A wonderful read perfect for fans of Veronica Henry and Lisa Jewell.When Steffie helps her two siblings organize a surprise wedding anniversary party for their parents her only worry is whether they'll be pleased. What she doesn't know is this is the day that her whole world will be turned upside down.Jenny wants to be able to celebrate her ruby anniversary with the man she loves, but for forty years she has kept a secret. A secret that she can't bear to hide any longer. But is it ever the right time to hurt the people closest to you?As the entire family gather to toast the happy couple, they're expecting a day to remember. The trouble is, it's not going to be for the reasons they imagined...What readers are saying about My Mother's Secret: 'A novel with humour and heartache and a believable ending. Heart-warming, entertaining and very enjoyable' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Sheila O'Flanagan always seems to create a cast of characters that you can identify with and care about. My Mother's Secret is no exception. I found myself instantly connecting with them' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'A great book in true Sheila O'Flanagan style. The characters are all great warm-hearted Irish folk and there are many laughs and twists and turns along the way' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Perfect Man: Let the #1 bestselling author take you on a life-changing journey ... Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

27 May 2010 (11 Jun 2015)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h197mm x w137mm x s32mm 332g ISBN13: 9780755343812 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-4381-2 ISBN10: 0755343816 EAN: 9780755343812 x Description: A captivating novel about family ties, romance and leaving the past behind - THE PERFECT MAN by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flangan. A perfect read for fans of Fern Britton and Veronica Henry. Brit doesn't believe in love. One painful mistake was all it took. So she's as surprised as anyone when her novel THE PERFECT MAN becomes a huge bestseller - how did she manage to write so convincingly about love if she really thinks it's a myth?Heartbreak has never stopped her sister Mia from being a hopeless romantic. She can't be with the love of her life, but she's never stopped hoping. They both need to let go of the past to stand a chance of being happy in the future. Could a Caribbean cruise be just what they need to open their hearts?What readers are saying about The Perfect Man: 'A soul-bearing story. Beautifully written as always. Two very different sisters at similar points in their lives' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'A great read. The characters really came to life and I enjoyed it from start to finish.

Excellent!' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'I absolutely loved it - the cover, the writing, the characters - it was all fabulous. It reads like a dream and you could imagine all of the beautiful locations described. I wholly recommend it!' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What Happened That Night: A page-turning read by the No. 1 Bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

22 Feb 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 512pp h198mm x w128mm x s36mm 360g ISBN13: 9781472235350 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-3535-0 ISBN10: 1472235355 EAN: 9781472235350 x Description: THE NO. 1 EBOOK BESTSELLER'A fabulous tale with refreshingly inspiring heroines' ***** Heat WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT is an enchanting read by Sheila O'Flanagan, bestselling author of THE HIDEAWAY, perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Lisa Jewell. ThenWhen Lola Fitzpatrick catches the eye of Philip Warren, she's new to Dublin and loving it. He's used to getting what he wants...and she can't resist him. Until one night he forces her to make an impossible choice.If she'd known then what she knows now, everything might have been different.NowLola's daughter Bey has inherited her mother's impulsive streak and it takes her down dangerous paths.Then one night she too finds herself in front of a man she loves, with impossible choices of her own to make.For both women, what happened that night changes everything. For better. For worse. For ever.What readers are saying about What Happened That Night: 'Brilliant book from start to finish. Another smash from Sheila O'Flanagan' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'A great, warm, life-affirming read that is not your traditional 'romcom', but offers so much more' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'This is an exquisite book - everyone who loves a family story will love this book. Ready to change your life?' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Excellent book. I looked forward to reading it every day on my commute... On one occasion I was so engrossed I missed my stop' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What Happened That Night: A page-turning read by the No. 1 Bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

22 Feb 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 512pp h178mm x w112mm x s40mm 280g ISBN13: 9781472253606 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-5360-6 ISBN10: 1472253604 EAN: 9781472253606 x Description: 'A fabulous tale with refreshingly inspiring heroines' ***** Heat Sheila O'Flanagan is the bestselling author of THE MISSING WIFE, and her new bestseller WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT will enchant readers who love the novels of Marian Keyes and Lisa Jewell. ThenWhen Lola Fitzpatrick catches the eye of Philip Warren, she's new to Dublin and loving it. He's used to getting what he wants...and she can't resist him. Until one night he forces her to make an impossible choice.If she'd known then what she knows now, everything might have been different.NowLola's daughter Bey has inherited her mother's impulsive streak and it takes her down dangerous paths.Then one night she too finds herself in front of a man she loves, with impossible choices of her own to make.For both women, what happened that night changes everything. For better. For worse. For ever.What readers are saying about What Happened That Night: 'Brilliant book from start to finish. Another smash from Sheila O'Flanagan' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'A great, warm, life-affirming read that is not your traditional 'romcom', but offers so much more' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'This is an exquisite book - everyone who loves a family story will love this book. Ready to change your life?' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Excellent book. I looked forward to reading it every day on my commute... On one occasion I was so engrossed I missed my stop' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Purge Sofi Oksanen (Author) Lola Rogers (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

01 May 2011

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h200mm x w125mm x s30mm 378g ISBN13: 9781848872134 ISBN13: 978-1-84887-213-4 ISBN10: 1848872135 EAN: 9781848872134 x Description: Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding.Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal captors - men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge but not safety: she has her own criminal secrets - traitorous crimes of passion and revenge committed long ago, during the country's brutal Soviet years.Both women have survived lives of abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth.A haunting, intimate and gripping story of suspicion, betrayal and retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression and European war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When the Doves Disappeared Sofi Oksanen (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

27 Apr 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h210mm x w148mm x s24mm 366g ISBN13: 9781782391258 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-125-8 ISBN10: 1782391258 EAN: 9781782391258

x Description: 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When the Doves Disappeared Sofi Oksanen (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

31 Dec 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 236g ISBN13: 9781782391289 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-128-9 ISBN10: 1782391282 EAN: 9781782391289 x Description: 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Purge Sofi Oksanen (Author) Lola Rogers (Translated by) Series:

Atlantic Cult Classics

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

05 Apr 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 386g ISBN13: 9781786495419 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-541-9 ISBN10: 1786495414 EAN: 9781786495419 x Description: A blowfly. Unusually large, loud, and eager to lay its eggs. It was lying in wait to get into the kitchen, rubbing its wings and feet against the curtain as if preparing to feast. It was after meat, nothing else but meat.Deep in an overgrown Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara, a murderer and a victim of sex-trafficking, is on the run from brutal captors. Aliide, a communist sympathizer and a blood traitor, has endured a life of abuse and the country's brutal Soviet years. Their survival now depends on exposing the one thing that kept them hidden... the truth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Norma Sofi Oksanen (Author) Owen F. Witesman (Translator) (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Open Market Edition

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

02 Nov 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 175g ISBN13: 9781786491985 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-198-5 ISBN10: 1786491982 EAN: 9781786491985 x Description: From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, comes a deliciously dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realise that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining.From the reviews of Purge:'A phenomenon' Times 'Powerful, passionately wrought, emotionally shattering, extraordinary' Independent'Purge stands out. Murder, sexual violence and political history combine to place Oksanen in the front rank of crime novelists.' Sunday Times 'Books of the Year''Finland's hottest crime writer will soon be as wellknown as Stieg Larsson' The Times'Essential reading: Purge is not a book to read last thing at night.' Economist _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Netherland Joseph O'Neill (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

05 Jan 2009

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 300pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 250g ISBN13: 9780007275700 ISBN13: 978-0-00-727570-0 ISBN10: 0007275706 EAN: 9780007275700 x Description: In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.

In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans - his English wife Rachel left with their son after the attack, as if that event revealed the cracks and silences in their marriage, and he spent two strange years in New York's Chelsea Hotel, passing stranger evenings with the eccentric residents.

Lost in a country he'd regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place - the thriving but almost invisible world of New York cricket, in which immigrants from Asia and the West Indies play a beautiful, mystifying game on the city's most marginal parks. It was during these games that Hans befriends Chuck Ramkissoon, who dreamed of establishing the city's first proper cricket field. Over the course of a summer, Hans grew to share Chuck's dream and Chuck's sense of American possibility - until he began to glimpse the darker meaning of his new friend's activities and ambitions.

'Netherland' is a novel of belonging and not belonging, and the uneasy state in between. It is a novel of a marriage foundering and recuperating, and of the shallows and depths of male friendship. With it, Joseph O'Neill has taken the anxieties and uncertainties of our new century and fashioned a work of extraordinary beauty and brilliance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Best Possible Taste Sam O'Reilly (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Nov 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w135mm x s27mm 292g ISBN13: 9780141016542 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101654-2 ISBN10: 014101654X x Description: When you're a teenager in seventies Stoke living on Smash and Cup-a-Soup, there's only one thing you long to acquire: Taste. At least you do if you're Stephen Beckett, and you're convinced you were born into the wrong class. So when middle age nears and you're running your own trendy Brighton eatery, you're entitled to think you've made it. But you're about to find out just how expensive taste can be. It can cost you: Your wife and children; Your friends and family; Your sex drive, your business and probably your sanity Caught in the headlights of a terrifying new life and an unhealthy fixation with a lapdancer who hates him, Stephen must face the question: is class really about what's on your plate? And if not, what are its true ingredients? To discover where he belongs and who with Stephen Beckett is going to have to swallow a lot of things far less palatable than a plate of borsch. And that's just for starters _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Natural Causes M Palmer (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Arrow Books Ltd

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

02 Dec 1999

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h178mm x w110mm x s31mm 260g ISBN13: 9780099727118 ISBN13: 978-0-09-972711-8 ISBN10: 0099727110 EAN: 9780099727118 x Description: Dr Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labour has suddenly become a matter of life and death.

As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances.

And so begins Sarahs own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed are the only things these three women have in common. Soon Sarah is fighting to save her career, her reputation - her life. For she's certain there must be some unknown factor linking these women, and as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that someone will do anything - even murder - to keep a devastating secret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Men In Her Life, The Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h1mm x w1mm x s1mm 319g ISBN13: 9780552999915 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99991-5 ISBN10: 0552999911 x Description: Holly has everything she ever wanted, but it isn't enough. She's successful in her career and has a whole roomful of designer clothes, but she's looking for new goals, maybe even a husband. Clare is married with two children, living in a cottage with roses round the door. But she's unhappy, and sure that life must have more in store for her. Holly and Clare are sisters, unaware of each other's existence, until their fist meeting at their father's funeral--after which their lives will never be the same. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

These Foolish Things Imogen Parker (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w128mm x s28mm 312g ISBN13: 9780552999939 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99993-9 ISBN10: 0552999938 x Description: Alison has everything she ever dreamed of. Smart, sophisticated, married to a successful cardiologist, she's at the top of her career in journalism. Why, then, does she wonder if this is all there is? Ginger is just the opposite. She flunked out of university, is a failed actress who has never had a relationship lasting more than a month, and only has somewhere to live because she was her eccentric grandmother's favourite. Lia alone is perfectly content with her life. Three women, with nothing in common, nothing at all - except that they are all about to have their first child. Meeting each other will change all their lives as doubt becomes certainty, old sins are forgiven, and as what begins as friendship ends in betrayal. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hush Money Robert B. Parker (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Publisher:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Pub Date:

27 Apr 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 336pp h172mm x w105mm 163g ISBN13: 9780425174012 ISBN13: 978-0-425-17401-2 ISBN10: 0425174018 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dogs of Babel Carolyn Parkhurst (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

12 Apr 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 288pp h18mm x w110mm x s176mm 152g n/a ISBN13: 9780340833070 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83307-0 ISBN10: 0340833076 x Description: Paul's life is stable, orderly and dull - until he meets Lexy and her dog Lorelei. From their first date Lexy sweeps Paul off his feet and brings him passion, adventure and love. But one afternoon Lexy climbs an apple tree and falls to her death. Heartbroken, Paul cannot believe that it was an accident and sets out to find the truth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Europa Tim Parks (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Jan 1998

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099268093 ISBN13: 978-0-09-926809-3 ISBN10: 0099268094 EAN: 9780099268093 x Description: Discover Tim Parks' darkly funny and deeply prescient Booker prize-shortlisted novel about the European experience. A brilliantly comic and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Europa follows Jerry Marlow, a middle-aged Brit teaching at an Italian university, as he and his colleagues embark on a coach trip to Strasbourg in order to petition the European Parliament for improved working conditions. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he's trapped in the awful claustrophobia of the trip with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart.'The best thing about Europa is the voice Tim Parks conjures up: Marlow's wry, defeated reason keeps you turning the pages...reminding us that it is far easier to unite a sprawling continent than the few cubic metres that contain a human soul' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Eager to Please Julie Parsons (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

24 Nov 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 227g ISBN13: 9780330368810 ISBN13: 978-0-330-36881-0 ISBN10: 0330368818 EAN: 9780330368810 x Description: 'Are you listening, outside world? I'm coming back. Are you listening?' For twelve long years Rachel Beckett has been in prison for the murder of her husband, Martin. A murder she swears she did not commit. For twelve long years she has been denied the touch and the love of her only daughter Amy. Has been forced to watch another woman raise and enjoy her child. Until, at the age of seventeen, Amy has insisted she never wants to see her real mother again. But now Rachel is free. And she is ready to take revenge . . . 'A classy, riveting suspense by a writer who deserves to be up with the big names of crime fiction - Walters, Vine et al.' Bookseller 'Brilliant. A star in the making.' Minette Walters 'One of those rare authors who can successfully combine psychological insight, literary style and heart-stopping suspense.' Jeffrey Deaver _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

One For My Baby Tony Parsons (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

04 Mar 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s25mm 207g ISBN13: 9780007135691 ISBN13: 978-0-00-713569-1 ISBN10: 0007135696 EAN: 9780007135691 This Product is Replaced By: 9780006514817 x Description: New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love.

Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him.

He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill's Language School, and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang.

Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs'? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler known as The Slab?

Like his runaway bestseller, Man and Boy, Tony Parsons's new novel is full of laughter and tears, biting social comment and overwhelming emotion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Da Vinci Legacy Lewis Perdue (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Tor Books

Publisher:

St Martin's Press

Pub Date:

30 Jan 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 400pp h171mm x w106mm 190g ISBN13: 9780765349675 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-4967-5 ISBN10: 0765349671 x Description: "The Da Vinci Codex" is a priceless collection of Leonardo's original work - or is it? When Da Vinci scholar Curtis Davis discovers that several of the "Codex's" pages are forgeries, the search is on the for genuine documents, which may hold startling secrets and revelations. But Davis is not the only one seeking the missing pages. He soon finds himself the target of a murderous conspiracy that dates back to the dawn of Christianity itself. For the "Da Vinci Codex" is more than just a precious document. It is also the key to a long lost discovery of frightening importance. Now, not only Davis's life but also he future itself is at stake. Ultimate power is the prize for whoever seizes...The Da Vinci Legacy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Queen of the South Arturo Perez-Reverte (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

03 Jun 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s40mm 339g ISBN13: 9780330433655 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43365-5 ISBN10: 0330433652 EAN: 9780330433655 This Product is Replaced By: 9780330413145 x Description: Guero Davila is a pilot engaged in drug-smuggling for the local cartels. Teresa Mendoza is his girlfriend, a typical narco's morra, quiet, doting, submissive. But then Guero's caught playing both sides and in Sinaloa that means death. Teresa is alone, terrified, friendless and running to save her life, carrying nothing but a gym bag containing a pistol and a notebook that she has been forbidden to read. Forced to leave Mexico, she flees to the Spanish city of Melilla where she meets Santiago Fisterra, a Galician involved in trafficking hashhish across the Strait of Gibraltar. When Santiago's partner is captured, it is Teresa who steps in to take his place. Now Teresa has plunged into the dark and ugly world that once claimed Guero's life - and she's about to get in deeper . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Crossing the River Caryl Phillips (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

22 May 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9780571204021 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20402-1 ISBN10: 0571204023 EAN: 9780571204021 x

Description: Spans 250 years of the diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in World War II. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Small Great Things: The bestselling novel you won't want to miss Jodi Picoult (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

11 Apr 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 560pp h178mm x w129mm x s36mm 302g ISBN13: 9781444788044 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-8804-4 ISBN10: 1444788043 EAN: 9781444788044 x Description: 'It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes' Financial TimesWhen a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.Small Great Things is about prejudice and power; it is about that which divides and unites us. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Her Father's House Belva Plain (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Coronet Books

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

05 Dec 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h178mm x w112mm x s24mm 200g None ISBN13: 9780340766439 ISBN13: 978-0-340-76643-9 ISBN10: 0340766433 EAN: 9780340766439 x Description: For her he would give up everything: his home, his work and even his freedom. When his marriage fails, he does just that. A chance meeting with a stranger on a train changes his life - and his daughter's - in ways he could never have imagined. From her earliest years Tina is exceptional, a brilliant student and a joyous person with a loving spirit. At university she falls in love with Gilbert who, three years older than she, graduates from law school just as she is about to enter medical school. Together they go to New York, where they learn a truth about Donald that shatters Tina's regard for the father who has for so long protected and cherished her. When a terrible lie has been told for love, can it be forgiven? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Farewell Companions James Plunkett (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Leopard Books

Publisher:

Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)

Pub Date:

01 Aug 1996

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 480pp h178mm x w110mm 244g Restricted distribution ISBN13: 9780752904047 ISBN13: 978-0-7529-0404-7 ISBN10: 0752904043 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona Jeremy Poolman (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

06 Jan 1997

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h199mm x w128mm x s20mm 210g ISBN13: 9780571179282 ISBN13: 978-0-571-17928-2 ISBN10: 0571179282 EAN: 9780571179282 x Description: A story of death and life, of love lost and found, of chances squandered and second chances, of dust and heat in the American SouthWest, Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona is the exceptional debut novel by Jeremy Poolman. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Do You Come Here Often? Alexandr Potter (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

15 Mar 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp 313g ISBN13: 9780552770040 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77004-0 ISBN10: 0552770043 EAN: 9780552770040 x Description: Life's full of surprises. Grace never expected to wake up on her thirty-first birthday and realise that Mr Right had turned into Mr Wrong.

She never expected to break off her engagement. But then she never expected to go on honeymoon with her ex-boyfriend either. Set against a backdrop of a late-night radio show hosted by Dr Cupid who promises to sort out the love lives of his listeners, this is a romantic comedy that looks at what it's like to be single again, about finding true love and how it can all get very, very complicated... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

May It Please Your Lordship Toby Potts (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Monday Books

Publisher:

Monday Books

Pub Date:

14 Nov 2013

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w125mm 256g ISBN13: 9781906308605 ISBN13: 978-1-906308-60-5 ISBN10: 1906308608 EAN: 9781906308605 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Venusberg Anthony Powell (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Mandarin

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

03 Dec 1992

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h196mm x w129mm 394g ISBN13: 9780749311971 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-1197-1 ISBN10: 0749311975

x Description: One of Anthony Powell's early novels, this book features a whole gallery of comic subordinate characters: the egregious valet, Pope, called by his comrades in the army "The Duke"; the two Russian counts, Scherbatcheff and Bobel; the ingenious American, Cortney; and the conscientious Waldemar. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

O How the Wheel Becomes It! Powell, Anthony (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Mandarin

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

03 Dec 1992

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 144pp 259g ISBN13: 9780749311940 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-1194-0 ISBN10: 0749311940 EAN: 9780749311940 x Description: Sometime novelist and critic, now literary hack and occasional lecturer at provincial universities, Geoffrey Shadbold has long rested on the laurels of what was once a promising career. But when he is invited on to a TV chat show, and asked to give his views on love and sex, the wheel is come full circle when the past rolls awkwardly into the present. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Nectar Lily Prior (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Nov 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp 183g ISBN13: 9780552770880 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77088-0 ISBN10: 0552770884 EAN: 9780552770880 x Description: Ramona Drottoveo, an albino with unusual looks, is a chambermaid at an Italian country estate. Distinguished by an intoxicating scent, she is despised by all women and worshipped by all men, whose inexhaustible lust she eagerly satisfies. But Ramona's life changes for ever when she marries a beekeeper who dies after discovering his bride with a lover on their wedding day. The superstitious villagers go on to blame Ramona and her lover when his body mysteriously disappears and the crops fail, and they exile the couple from the estate to the neighboring city of Naples. There we follow Ramona through her tragi-comic misadventures where her life is transformed once again by the birth of an unwanted daughter, Blandina.

Blandina 'steals' Ramona's scent, depriving her mother of her only asset. No longer able to seduce men into blind submission, Ramona returns humbly to the estate to an unexpected welcome - and revenge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Postcards Annie Proulx (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Flamingo

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

23 May 1994

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm 255g ISBN13: 9780006546689 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654668-9 ISBN10: 0006546684 This Product is Replaced By: 9781841155012 x Description: The story of Loyal Blood, a man on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 and propels Blood across the American West for 40 years.

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The In Search of Lost Time: v. 5: Captive Marcel Proust (Author) Terence Kilmartin (Volume editor) T. Kilmartin (Translated by) Scott Moncrieff (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Mar 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 832pp h198mm x w126mm 560g Film tie-in (originally 0099362619) ISBN13: 9780099425137 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942513-7 ISBN10: 0099425130 x Description: Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he needs is a collapsed woman in the street on Christmas Eve. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother and escape her husband. Milton Amery is her husband, an unfaithful New York plastic surgeon. All three of their roads leads to Inishowen. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Superstar Lovers Morag Prunty (Author) Series:

Edition:

Unabridged edition

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

20 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w130mm x s25mm 250g ISBN13: 9780330419109 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41910-9 ISBN10: 0330419102 EAN: 9780330419109 x Description: Employing her customary razor-like humour, Morag Prunty introduces a host of characters whose lives have been chewed up and spat out by this harsh, celebrity-obsessed world. There's Molly, a lonely 20-something, who trudges to the newsagents every day for her fix of VIP, OK!, Hello!: - anything to give her life a much-needed injection of glamour. . . And there's Alfie, burned-out boyband member who's kissed the good times goodbye and is now all washed up . . . In her inimitable way, Morag Prunty introduces a collection of fascinating characters and gives them a sprinkle of magic dust in this witty dissection of the vagaries of fame and celebrity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Diary of a Married Call Girl Tracy Quan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

31 May 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 226g ISBN13: 9780007228621 ISBN13: 978-0-00-722862-1 ISBN10: 0007228627 EAN: 9780007228621 x Description: The witty, sexy sequel to Tracy Quan's bestselling `Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl'.

Like everyone, Nancy finds that as life goes on, she has to adapt. She's learning to hone her respectable image as the wife of investment banker Matt, cooking fashionable meals and taking his shirts to the cleaners, while turning a few tricks on the side. Volume is down, but the sex is kinkier. And she finds herself pulled into the discreet subculture of the married call girl. Some women's husband's know what they do, some don't, and some `know, but don't know.' Nancy's is in the dark, although her best friend Allison's increasing presence in the media spotlight threatens to expose Nancy's secret.

Meanwhile, Matt wants a baby, but Nancy isn't so sure. Motherhood could end her career for good - and what will it do to her body?

Will Nancy have to give up her career to save her marriage? What if she becomes the frumpy wife her clients often come to her to escape? Fans

of Quan's first Nancy Chan novel, readers of Candace Bushnell's `4 Blondes', and anyone who enjoys a walk on the wild side will love this revealing romp. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ten Thousand Lovers Edeet Ravel (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

06 Oct 2003

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w129mm x s26mm 260g None ISBN13: 9780755303717 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0371-7 ISBN10: 0755303717 EAN: 9780755303717 x Description: Lily is a young emigrant student exploring the wonders and terrors of her new land when she meets the man of her dreams. Ami, a former actor, is handsome, intelligent and exciting - but, like his beautiful, disintegrating country, he has a terrible flaw - he is an army interrogator. As Lily and Ami's unexpected passion grows, so too does the shadow that hangs over them - the unspeakable horrors which Ami's work forces him to face. In today's world, where danger, terrorism and the possibility of war are a part of all our lives, no novel could be more brilliantly, terrifyingly contemporary. Yet TEN THOUSAND LOVERS is set in Israel in the Seventies: a dazzling backdrop to a universal story of passion, suffering and the transcending power of love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Earth and Ashes Atiq Rahimi (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Oct 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 64pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 53g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099442127 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944212-7 ISBN10: 0099442124 EAN: 9780099442127 x Description: Earth and Ashes is a story of such spareness and power it leaves the reader reeling. Set during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, it is a fable about war, family, home and tradition. An old man and his grandson sit in a deserted landscape of dusty roads and looming mountains. What are they waiting for? As we watch them we learn their story...Atiq Rahimi has managed to condense centuries of Afghan history into his short tale of three very different generations. At the same time, he has created a story that is universal in its power. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Knack of Life Trisha Rainsford (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Ireland

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

26 Jan 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: Ireland Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h182mm x w113mm x s26mm 208g ISBN13: 9781844880096 ISBN13: 978-1-84488-009-6 ISBN10: 1844880095 x Description: Thirty year-old Seamus can't believe his eyes when he sees his friend Mattie being killed. It just doesn't make any sense, but then not much has to Seamus ever since his lovely wife ran off with another man. Then two feisty women drag Seamus out of his torpor, and into some impromptu detective work. His investigations will lead him not only to the truth about Mattie, but also into the mysteries of his own head and his heart.

And lead him to wonder if he'll ever figure out the knack of life ...

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Rasero Rebolledo Francisco (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

13 Nov 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 763g ISBN13: 9780297817543 ISBN13: 978-0-297-81754-3 ISBN10: 029781754X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Flight to Canada Ishmael Reed (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Simon & Schuster

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Pub Date:

22 Jun 1998

Publishing Status:

Unspecified

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 192pp h178mm x w111mm 200g ISBN13: 9780684847504 ISBN13: 978-0-684-84750-4 ISBN10: 0684847507 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

St Urbain's Horseman Mordecai Richler (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

15 Oct 1992

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h1mm x w1mm x s1mm 345g ISBN13: 9780099858508 ISBN13: 978-0-09-985850-8 ISBN10: 0099858509 x Description: "What a rich pleasure this novel is... Its satire is deft and delightful- the trendy London world, failed middle-aged marriages, Jewish family ritual, the whimsical workings of the law, hustlers in business and communications, and Jewish mother at whom even Sophie Portnoy might cringe - all are depicted devastatingly, yet engagingly. The stuff of life, the joy and terror alike, surges through St. Urbain's Horseman" New York Times Long considered one of Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler's most beloved and acclaimed novels, St. Urbain's Horseman is a complex, moving, and wonderfully comic evocation of a generation consumed with guilt, set in 1960s London and Montreal.

Thirty-seven-year-old Jake Hersh is a film director of modest success, a faithful husband, and a man in disgrace. His alter ego is his cousin Joey, a legend in their childhood neighbourhood in Montreal. Nazi-hunter, adventurer, and hero of the Spanish Civil War, Joey is the avenging horseman of Jake's impotent dreams. When Jake becomes embroiled in a scandalous trial in London, he puts his own unadventurous life on trial as well, finding it desperately wanting as he steadfastly longs for the Horseman's glorious return.

Irreverent, deeply felt, as scathing in its critique of social mores as it is uproariously funny, St. Urbain's Horseman was the book that confirmed Mordecai Richler's reputation as a pre-eminent observer of the hypocrisies and absurdities of modern life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

First Love Gwendoline Riley (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Granta Books

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

01 Jul 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 130g ISBN13: 9781783783243 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-324-3 ISBN10: 1783783249 EAN: 9781783783243 x Description: 'A singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart' Observer SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place.

Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Endworld Double: Cincinnati Run/Dallas Run David Robbins (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Leisure Books

Publisher:

Leisure Books

Pub Date:

01 Nov 1992

Publishing Status:

No longer our product

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h170mm x w107mm x s25mm 186g ISBN13: 9780843933598 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-3359-8 ISBN10: 0843933593 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Blade Double Edition: Terror Strike/Devil Strike David Robbins (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Leisure Books

Publisher:

Leisure Books

Pub Date:

01 Mar 1993

Publishing Status:

Out of stock indefinitely

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h172mm x w106mm x s25mm 172g ISBN13: 9780843934076 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-3407-6 ISBN10: 0843934077 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Endworld Double: Yellowstone Run/New Orleans Run David Robbins (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Leisure Books

Publisher:

Leisure Books

Pub Date:

01 May 1993

Publishing Status:

No longer our product

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h168mm x w104mm x s23mm 168g ISBN13: 9780843934182 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-3418-2 ISBN10: 0843934182 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Looking Glass Michele Roberts (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h200mm x w126mm x s15mm 346g ISBN13: 9781860499012 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-901-2 ISBN10: 1860499015 EAN: 9781860499012 x Description: In her place as maid to Madame Patin in the cafe next to the sea, orphan Genevieve becomes the breathless audience for her mistress's alarming folk stories, beginning with the one about the mermaid - the beauty who is also a monster - who must be killed. Genevieve happily falls into the patterns and ways of Madame Patin and contentedly cooks, cleans, gardens and serves the customers alongside her. Until, that is, Genevieve ripens to siren beauty. To avoid the mermaid's fate she must take flight. And she does, to a poet who has the hearts of all his women: his mother, his mistress, his niece, his niece's governess - and before long, his new maid's. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

365: Stories James Robertson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 Nov 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 416pp h216mm x w135mm x s29mm 438g Trade paperback (UK) ISBN13: 9780241146866 ISBN13: 978-0-241-14686-6 ISBN10: 0241146860 EAN: 9780241146866 x Description: 365 is James Robertson's innovative collection of 365 stories, each 365 words long.In 2013, James Robertson wrote a story every day.

Each was exactly 365 words long. A year later, on a daily basis, the stories were published on the Five Dials website. Now the 365 stories are gathered together in one volume. Some draw on elements of ancient myth and legend, others are outtakes from Scottish history and folklore; there are squibs and satires, songs and ballads in disguise, fairytales, stories inspired by dreams or in the form of interviews, and personal memories and observations.

Underpinning all of them are vital questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens next? 'Wow. James Robertson wrote a 365-word short story each day in 2013. They'll be posted throughout 2014' Ian Rankin, via Twitter 'A great storyteller' The Times 'One of Britain's best contemporary novelists' Irvine Welsh, Guardian James Robertson is the author of five novels, The Professor of Truth, And the Land Lay Still, The Testament of Gideon Mack, Joseph Knight and The Fanatic. The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and selected for Richard and Judy's Book Club the following year. Joseph Knight was the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year in 2003 and And the Land Lay Still was recipient of the same prize in 2010.

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And the Land Lay Still James Robertson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Jun 2011

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 688pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 468g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141028545 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102854-5 ISBN10: 0141028548 EAN: 9780141028545 x Description: And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James RobertsonAnd the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation.

James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and rapid change. It is a moving, sweeping story of family, friendship, struggle and hope - epic in every sense.The winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010, And the Land Lay Still is a masterful insight into Scotland's history in the twentieth century and a moving, beautifully written novel of intertwined stories.'Toweringly ambitious, virtually flawlessly realized, a masterpiece and, without a doubt, my book of the year' Daily Mail'A jam-packed, dizzying piece of fiction' Scotland on Sunday'Gripping, vivid, beautifully realized' The Times'Engrossing' Daily Telegraph'Powerful and moving. A brilliant and multifaceted saga of Scottish life in the second half of the twentieth century' Sunday Times'Brilliant and thoughtful. Eminently readable, subtle and profound' Independent on Sunday'Bold, discursive and deep, Robertson's sweeping history of life and politics in 20th-century Scotland should not be ignored' Ian Rankin, Observer Books of the YearJames Robertson is the author of three previous novels: The Fanatic, Joseph Knight and The Testament of Gideon Mack, which is available in Penguin. Joseph Knight was awarded the two major Scottish literary awards in 2003/4 - the Saltire Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year - and The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, picked by Richard and Judy's Book Club, and shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Professor of Truth James Robertson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

26 Jun 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 253g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241145340 ISBN13: 978-0-241-14534-0 ISBN10: 0241145341 EAN: 9780241145340 x Description: The Professor of Truth is James Robertson's acclaimed novel about grief, truth and justice.Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still doubts the official version of events surrounding that terrible night. Obsessed by the details of what he has come to call The Case, he is sure that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible, and that he himself has thus been deprived not only of justice but also of any chance of escape from his enduring grief.When a terminally ill American intelligence officer arrives on his doorstep with information about a key witness in the trial, Alan decides to act. Will this lead to the truth for which he has waited so long?'Superb. A mystery thriller, a haunting evocation of grief' Daily Mail'A great storyteller. It is a tense and gripping read, beautifully imagined' The Times'Powered by action and mystery, and profoundly invested in the lives of its characters' ScotsmanJames Robertson is the author of four previous novels, The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack and And the Land Lay Still. The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, picked by Richard and Judy's Book Club, and shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award. And the Land Lay Still was the winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Normal People Sally Rooney (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

02 May 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 229g ISBN13: 9780571334650 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33465-0 ISBN10: 0571334652 EAN: 9780571334650 x Description: THE BBC ADAPTATION OF NORMAL PEOPLE IS NOW AVAILABLE ON BBC IPLAYER AND BBC 1 OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND TOP FIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF NOVEL OF THE YEAR AND BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins.

Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't.

'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' - Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Chimera Mary Rosenblum (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

20 Jan 1994

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780099379713 ISBN13: 978-0-09-937971-3 ISBN10: 0099379716 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dying Animal Philip Roth (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

07 Mar 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 176pp h177mm x w110mm x s12mm 100g ISBN13: 9780099436898 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943689-8 ISBN10: 0099436892 EAN: 9780099436898 x Description: David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an 'emancipated manhood', beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years, he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and licence into an orderly way of life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of Eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela undo him completely. His worldliness, his confidence, his reason desert him, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Improbability of Love: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Hannah Rothschild (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

31 Mar 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 496pp h198mm x w129mm 341g ISBN13: 9781408862476 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-6247-6 ISBN10: 1408862476 EAN: 9781408862476 x Description: WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous London art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers, all scheming to get their hands on her painting - a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called 'The Improbability of Love'. Delving into the painting's past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of former owners, but some of the darkest secrets of European history - and in doing so she might just learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Elected Member Bernice Rubens (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Abacus

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

01 Jan 1988

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w131mm x s15mm 156g ISBN13: 9780349130224 ISBN13: 978-0-349-13022-4 ISBN10: 0349130221 EAN: 9780349130224 x Description: Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes... until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.For Norman, his committal to a mental hospital represents the ultimate act of betrayal. For Rbbi Zweck, Norman's father, his son's deterioration is a bitter reminder of his own guilt and failure. Only Bella, the unmarried sister, still in her childhood white ankle socks, can reach across the abyss of pain to bring father and son the elusive peace which they both desperately crave. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In Times of Fading Light Eugen Ruge (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

19 Jun 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w126mm x s20mm 256g ISBN13: 9780571288588 ISBN13: 978-0-571-28858-8 ISBN10: 0571288588 EAN: 9780571288588 x Description: 'Already hailed as a Cold War classic.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year 'Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland International bestseller and Winner of the German Book Prize A sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Jonathan Cape Ltd

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Sep 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 416pp h240mm x w153mm x s37mm 755g ISBN13: 9780224061612 ISBN13: 978-0-224-06161-2 ISBN10: 0224061615 x Description: Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all. The story of a deep love gone fatally wrong, destroyed by a shallow affair, it is an epic narrative that moves from California to France, England, and above all, Kashmir. At its heart is

the tale of that earthly paradise of peach orchards and honey bees, of mountains and lakes, of green-eyed women and murderous men: a ruined paradise, not so much lost as smashed. Lives are uprooted, names keep changing - nothing is permanent, yet everything is connected.

Spanning the globe and darting through history, Salman Rushdie's majestic narrative captures the heart of the reader and the spirit of a troubled age. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Salman Rushdie (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 May 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784701857 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-185-7 ISBN10: 1784701858 EAN: 9781784701857 x Description: Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece from one of the greatest living writers.In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own comic book creation. Abandoned at the mayor's office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world.'A riotous, exuberant and sometimes maddening celebration of the power of storytelling' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Night Crossing Robert Ryan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

08 Nov 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h197mm x w128mm x s21mm 250g ISBN13: 9780755301812 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0181-2 ISBN10: 0755301811 EAN: 9780755301812 x Description: In 1938, Ulrike Walter, a beautiful young German musician, is engaged to be married to Erich Hinkel, a member of the Hitler Youth. But when she meets Inspector Cameron Ross, a Scotland Yard policeman, whose father is a colonel in British Intelligence, her life will be changed for ever.

When war is declared, Ulrike flees Germany for the safety of England but is instead cruelly imprisoned as an enemy alien. Her only hope of rescue is Cameron, who, despite his better judgement, is falling in love with her. Then Erich is captured by the British and incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp in England. He faces interrogation by Cameron Ross, the one man who stands between him and Ulrike, the woman who means more to Erich than life itself... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Girl Who Played Go Sa Shan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Aug 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h178mm x w113mm x s19mm 160g ISBN13: 9780099490791 ISBN13: 978-0-09-949079-1 ISBN10: 009949079X EAN: 9780099490791 x Description: Set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, "The Girl who Played Go" is a haunting tragedy, a shocking tale of love and war reflected in the age-old game of go. In the Square of a Thousand Winds, snow falls as a sixteen-year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. One of her opponents is, unknown to her, a young Japanese officer of the occupying power, rigidly militaristic, imbued with the imperial ethic, but far from home and intrigued by this young opponent. Their encounters are like the game itself, restrained, subtle and surprisingly fierce. But as their two stories unfold, the Japanese army moves inexorably through their huge land, in the vanguard of a greater war, leaving blood and destruction in its wake. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Saddam City Mahmoud Saeed (Author) Ahmad Sadri (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Saqi Books

Publisher:

Saqi Books

Pub Date:

17 Apr 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 130pp h210mm x w135mm 154g ISBN13: 9780863563508 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-350-8 ISBN10: 0863563503 x Description: One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next 15 months he is brutally interrogated, shuttles from prison to prison and barred from contacting his family. The question of guilt or innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality. 'How do I know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks. Mahmoud Saeed's devastating novel evokes the works of Kafka, Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel in its account of the wanton and brutal treatment of the Iraqi people by Saddam Hussein's feared secret police. Narrated in a straightforward manner that makes it all the more vivid,the story testifies to the brutal arbitrariness of life under tyranny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Illustrated by) T.V.F. Cuffe (Introduction by) T.V.F. Cuffe (Translated by) Series:

Penguin Modern Classics Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Jan 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h199mm x w133mm x s10mm 246g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141185620 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118562-0 ISBN10: 0141185627 EAN: 9780141185620

x Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Aug 1994

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h195mm x w130mm x s10mm 106g ISBN13: 9780140237528 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023752-8 ISBN10: 0140237526 EAN: 9780140237528 x Description: Two wonderful stories about members of the Glass family by the author of `The Catcher in the Rye'. The first story takes place in downtown New Haven during the weekend of `the Yale game' and follows Franny Glass on a date with her collegiate boyfriend. The second focuses on Zooey Glass, a somewhat emotionally toughened genius. As his younger sister Franny hits an emotional crisis in her parents' Manhattan living room, Zooey comes to her aid, offering love, understanding, and words of sage advice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Seeing Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

03 May 2007

Publishing Status:

Active

Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h200mm x w132mm x s20mm 222g ISBN13: 9780099483625 ISBN13: 978-0-09-948362-5 ISBN10: 0099483629 EAN: 9780099483625 x Description: Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. Seeing explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Jose Saramago (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

The Harvill Press

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Sep 1999 (02 Nov 2017)

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 293g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781860466847 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-684-7 ISBN10: 1860466842 EAN: 9781860466847 x Description: Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and necessary evil - but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth.'An original, wild and beautiful book' Times Literary Supplement _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Stone Raft Jose Saramago (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

The Harvill Press

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

21 May 2000 (05 Dec 2019)

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 232g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781860467219 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-721-9 ISBN10: 1860467210 EAN: 9781860467219 x Description: What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe?In Saramago's fable, a new island is sent spinning through the ocean like a great stone raft. While the authorities panic and tourists flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by omens that burden them with a peculiar responsibility. In this magical realist tale, the six take to the road, finding themselves adrift in a world now unfamiliar and forced to reckon with their relationships, human psychology and the shakiness of belief itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Despite the Falling Snow Shamim Sarif (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Headline Review

Publisher:

Headline Publishing Group

Pub Date:

07 Feb 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w126mm x s22mm 250g None ISBN13: 9780755308682 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0868-2 ISBN10: 0755308689 EAN: 9780755308682 x Description: The enthralling narrative of Shamim Sarif's powerful second novel moves between present day Boston and 1950s Moscow. After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has built a successful business in the States. For forty years, he has buried the tragic memories surrounding his charismatic late wife, Katya - or so he believes. For into his life come two women - one who will open up the heart he has protected for so long; another who is determined to uncover what really happened to Katya so long ago. The novel's journey back to the snowbound streets of post-Stalinist Moscow reveals a world of secrets and treachery. Shamim Sarif's elegant writing delicately evokes the intensity of passionate love and tragic violence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Trail of Bohu the Imaro Novels Charles R Saunders (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

New American Library

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Oct 1985

Publishing Status:

Unspecified

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 222pp ISBN13: 9780886770877 ISBN13: 978-0-88677-087-7 ISBN10: 0886770874 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Random Acts Of Heroic Love: The Heartbreaking Richard and Judy Bestseller Danny Scheinmann (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w127mm x s26mm 294g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552774222 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77422-2 ISBN10: 0552774227 EAN: 9780552774222 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BESTSELLING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD'A lush, romantic novel' Daily Mail1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how Eleni died. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something which will change his life forever. 1917: Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp. Seven thousand kilometres over the Russian Steppes separate him from his village and his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity. The Great War may be over, but Moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil war. When Moritz finally limps back into his village to claim the hand of the woman he left behind, will she still be waiting?'Special' Sunday Express'Tender' Observer'Mesmerising' Publishing News _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Young Austerlitz W. G. Sebald (Author) Series:

Pocket Penguins

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 May 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 64pp h181mm x w112mm x s4mm 48g Illustrations ISBN13: 9780141022802 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102280-2 ISBN10: 0141022809 x Description: In Young Austerlitz taken from the last book W. G. Sebald saw published we are told the story of a man who learns that his past is a lie. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export and UK open market ed

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

21 Feb 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747582922 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8292-2 ISBN10: 0747582920 x Description: Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then, the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily, now, has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But, a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dark Room: World War 2 Fiction Rachel Seiffert (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

07 Feb 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h180mm x w110mm x s25mm 215g ISBN13: 9780099437932 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943793-2 ISBN10: 0099437937 EAN: 9780099437932 x Description: The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Allies; and, fifty years later, Micha, a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in the war, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Beastly Tales: Enchanting animal fables in verse from the author of A SUITABLE BOY, to be enjoyed by young and old alike Vikram Seth (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

01 Apr 1999

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 144pp h198mm x w131mm x s11mm 132g 35 ISBN13: 9780753807743 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-0774-3 ISBN10: 0753807742 EAN: 9780753807743 x Description: Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike'Because it was very hot in my house one day and I could not concentrate on my work, I decided to write a summer story involving mangoes and a river. By the time I had finished writing 'The Crocodile and the Monkey' (in a cool room lent to me by a friend), another story and other animals had begun stirring in my mind. And so it went on until all ten of these beastly tales were born - or re-born.Of the ten tales told here, the first two come from India, the next two from China, the next two from Greece, and the next two from the Ukraine. The final two came directly from the Land of Gup. I hope you enjoy them and have a beastly time.' Vikram Seth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Riot at Misri Mandi Vikram Seth (Author) Series:

Phoenix 60p paperbacks

Edition:

Imprint:

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

22 Dec 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 64pp h137mm x w106mm x s5mm 29g ISBN13: 9781857995992 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-599-2 ISBN10: 1857995996 x Description: An extraordinary account of the political upheavals afflicting the newly independent India,taken from the bestselling A SUITABLE BOY. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Suitable Boy: The classic bestseller Vikram Seth (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

02 Oct 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 704pp 350g ISBN13: 9781857993578 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-357-8 ISBN10: 1857993578 EAN: 9781857993578 x Description: THIS IS THE STORY OF A GIRL'S SEARCH FOR THE MAN SHE WILL MARRY.SHE MUST CHOOSE FROM 3 SUITORS EITHER BY LOVE OR MATERNAL PERSUASION.THIS CORE IS WOVEN INTO A RICH TAPESTRY OF FAMILY INFLUENCES _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Suitable Boy: The classic bestseller Vikram Seth (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

02 Oct 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 688pp 320g ISBN13: 9781857993585 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-358-5 ISBN10: 1857993586 EAN: 9781857993585 x Description: THE SECOND PART OF THE LATA SAGA- WILL SHE CHOOSE AMIDST THE TURMOIL OF HER COUNTRY ENTERING A NEW ERA AFTER PARTITION.HER SISTER SAVITA DIVERTS MRS MEHRA'S ATTENTION BY GIVING BIRTH. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HOLDING THE ZERO Gerald Seymour (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Corgi Books

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

04 Nov 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 528pp h180mm x w110mm x s36mm 260g ISBN13: 9780552146661 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14666-1 ISBN10: 0552146668 EAN: 9780552146661 x Description: Gus Peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family debt of friendship draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a savage forgotten war between Kurdish guerillas and Saddam Hussein's military strength. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Home Fire: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Kamila Shamsie (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

22 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm 206g ISBN13: 9781408886793 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-8679-3 ISBN10: 1408886790 EAN: 9781408886793 x Description: NOW A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

'A BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017' - GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, NEW YORK TIMES 'The book for our times' Judges of the Women's Prize 'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' Guardian Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew.

Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Beggarman, Thief Irwin Shaw (Author) Series:

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Imprint:

Orion mass market paperback

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

04 Apr 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w129mm x s22mm 320g ISBN13: 9780752848518 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4851-8 ISBN10: 0752848518 EAN: 9780752848518 x Description: Wesley, haunted by his father's murder, begins a strange and deeply personal quest; Billy becomes involved with a girl who leads him into unexpected dangers; Gretchen finds new challenges and experiences a remarkable twist to her life. Moving between Europe and America, "Beggarman, Thief" is a brilliant novel chronicling the fortunes of one family - the joys, sorrows, successes and failures. This is not only the gripping sequel to Irwin Shaw's bestselling "Rich Man, Poor Man", but also an outstanding novel in its own right. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Evening In Byzantium Irwin Shaw (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

05 Aug 1996

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 260g ISBN13: 9781857994476 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-447-6 ISBN10: 1857994477 EAN: 9781857994476 x Description: 'They were honest mean and thieves, pimps and panderers and men of virtue. Therewere beautiful women and delicious girls, handsome men with the faces of swines...' 'They were all gamblers in a game with no rules, placing their bets debonairly or in the sweat of fear...' These are some of the characters in Irwin Shaw's bestselling EVENING IN BYZANTIUM. The place is Cannes, the setting, a film festival. The hero is Jesse Craig, fortyeight years old, whose survival is at stake in the midst of this gaudy carnival. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Marian Schwartz (Translated by) Leo Shtutin (Translated by) Mariya Bashkatova (Translated by) Sylvia Maizell (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Deep Vellum Publishing

Publisher:

Deep Vellum Publishing

Pub Date:

19 May 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 180pp h210mm x w134mm 241g ISBN13: 9781941920039 ISBN13: 978-1-941920-03-9 ISBN10: 1941920039 x Description: "A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards. Often included in discussions of Nobel Prize contenders, Shishkin is a master prose writer in the breathtakingly beautiful style of the greatest Russian authors, known for complex, allusive novels about universal and emotional themes. Shishkin's stories read like modern versions of the eternal literature written by his greatest inspirations: Boris Pasternak, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Shishkin's short fiction is the perfect introduction to his breathtaking oeuvre, his stories touch on the same big themes as his novels, spanning discussions of love and loss, death and eternal life, emigration and exile.

Calligraphy Lesson spans Shishkin's entire writing career, including his first published story, the 1993 Debut Prize--winning "Calligraphy Lesson," and his most recent story "Nabokov's Inkblot," which was written for a dramatic adaptation performed in Zurich in 2013. Mikhail Shishkin (b. 1961 in Moscow) is one of the most prominent names in contemporary Russian literature. A former interpreter for refugees in Switzerland, Shishkin divides his time between Moscow, Switzerland, and Germany. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Granta Books

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

04 Feb 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 265g ISBN13: 9781847080066 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-006-6 ISBN10: 1847080065 EAN: 9781847080066 x Description: Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he just wants to live in the South Bronx with his Latina girlfriend, but after his gangster father murders an Oklahoma businessman in Russia, all hopes of a US visa are lost. Salvation lies in the tiny oil-rich nation of Absurdistan (a fictional former Soviet republic), where a crooked consular officer will sell Misha a Belgian passport. But after a civil war breaks out between two competing ethnic groups and a local warlord installs hapless Misha as minister of multicultural affairs, our hero soon finds himself covered in oil, fighting for his life, falling in love, and trying to figure out if a normal life is still possible in the twenty-first century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Animal's People Indra Sinha (Author) Series:

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Imprint:

Simon & Schuster

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Pub Date:

04 Feb 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning No warning 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 324g ISBN13: 9781416526278 ISBN13: 978-1-4165-2627-8 ISBN10: 1416526277 EAN: 9781416526278 x Description: Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk - only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the 'Kampani' - Animal plunges into a web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage. Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity, Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy - from the very first page all the way to the story's explosive ending. ANIMAL'S PEOPLE is a stunningly humane work of storytelling that takes us right to the heart of contemporary India. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paradise Palace Peter Slater (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd

Publisher:

Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 139pp h230mm ISBN13: 9781902644189 ISBN13: 978-1-902644-18-9 ISBN10: 1902644182 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Autumn: SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 Ali Smith (Author) Series:

Seasonal Quartet

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

31 Aug 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 193g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241973318 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97331-8 ISBN10: 0241973317 EAN: 9780241973318 x Description: Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, SEASONAL, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right nowThe final instalment in the Seasonal quartet is out in August 2020. Catch up with Autumn now - Summer is coming...SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017Chosen by the Guardian as one of the Best Books of the 21st CenturySUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting' The Times A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .'Terrific, extraordinary, playful... There is an awful lot to lift the soul' Daily Mail'Bold and brilliant' Observer

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I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith (Author) Valerie Grove (Introduction by) Series:

VMC 217

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

18 Jan 1996

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w126mm 300g Illustrations ISBN13: 9781860491023 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-102-3 ISBN10: 1860491022 x Description: I write this sitting at the kitchen sink' is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Cassandra Mortmin's journal records her fadingly glamorous stepmother, her beautiful, wistful older sister and the man to whom they owe both their isolation and poverty - Father. The author of one experimental novel, and a minor cause celebre, he has since suffered from writer's block and is determined to drag his family down with him. But if the iron has entered Father's soul it hasn't penetrated Cassandra's... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 Zadie Smith (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 Jul 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 464pp h196mm x w132mm x s30mm 334g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141036601 ISBN13: 978-0-14-103660-1 ISBN10: 0141036605 EAN: 9780141036601 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of White Teeth, On Beauty and Grand Union Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . . .'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In Their Wisdom C.P. Snow (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

House of Stratus

Publisher:

House of Stratus

Pub Date:

02 Oct 2000

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 356pp h205mm x w135mm x s23mm 445g ISBN13: 9781842324349 ISBN13: 978-1-84232-434-9 ISBN10: 1842324349 EAN: 9781842324349 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ice Trilogy Vladimir Sorokin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

NYRB Classics

Publisher:

The New York Review of Books, Inc

Pub Date:

14 Apr 2011

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 704pp h202mm x w128mm x s37mm 580g ISBN13: 9781590173862 ISBN13: 978-1-59017-386-2 ISBN10: 1590173864 EAN: 9781590173862 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Queue Vladimir Sorokin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

NYRB Classics

Publisher:

The New York Review of Books, Inc

Pub Date:

23 Oct 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 1pp h200mm x w130mm x s15mm 290g ISBN13: 9781590172742 ISBN13: 978-1-59017-274-2 ISBN10: 1590172744 EAN: 9781590172742 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In the Eye of the Sun Ahdaf Soueif (Author) Series:

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Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

20 May 1999

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 800pp h198mm x w129mm 640g ISBN13: 9780747545897 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-4589-7 ISBN10: 0747545898 x Description: This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about what its like to be a women (East and West), a story about the history of the post-imperial Middle East during the last 30 years or so, perplexed and bloody years, and a story about home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

29 Jun 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm x s8mm 119g ISBN13: 9780140179620 ISBN13: 978-0-14-017962-0 ISBN10: 0140179623 x

Description: Sir Quentin Oliver steals the manuscript of Fleur Talbot's novel, "Warrender Chase". What sinister use will he make of it? Or, more tantalizing still, what if fiction were to overpower trust and Fleur's novel appropriate him? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Public Image Muriel Spark (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

New Directions Publishing Publisher: Corporation

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Pub Date:

01 Apr 1993

Active

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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 144pp h203mm x w140mm x s19mm 181g ISBN13: 9780811212465 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-1246-5 ISBN10: 0811212467 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ties Domenico Starnone (Author) Jhumpa Lahiri (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Europa Editions

Publisher:

Europa Editions

Pub Date:

07 Mar 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 144pp h210mm x w136mm ISBN13: 9781609453855 ISBN13: 978-1-60945-385-5 ISBN10: 1609453859 EAN: 9781609453855 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Empty Room Talitha Stevenson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

03 Mar 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h197mm x w126mm x s14mm 180g ISBN13: 9781860499845 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-984-5 ISBN10: 1860499848 EAN: 9781860499845 x Description: 'So lucent, so resonant, so exquisitely written and above all, so engaging' Tim Lott After months away, Emily returns to London and to a family on the verge of disintegration. She spends nights in cramped bars, drinking and smoking with her beautiful but damaged boyfriend Tom and his friends. It is a lifestyle that leaves her feeling directionless and jaded. In her search to believe in something or someone, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Simon, Tom's complex and charming cousin. But Simon is married, and as he and Emily become closer and the summer draws to an end they are forced to make decisions that will have a devastating effect on both families. 'Its denouement ought to surprise none but Emily herself, cast adrift in her own love stories, yet An Empty Room echoes with the dreamy unreality of a hot summer night' Observer 'Written with honesty and an element of wistfulness which combine in a voice that is clear and true' Raffaella Barker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Quarterdeck Julian Stockwin (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

28 Mar 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h21mm x w111mm x s176mm 188g n/a ISBN13: 9780340838709 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83870-9 ISBN10: 0340838701 x Description: Thomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now, he must sit an examination to confirm his rank -- or face an inglorious return before the mast. But this is only the first of many obstacles for a man who was pressed into the King's Service and discovered a calling for the sea. Kydd is from humble origins, yet he attains the lofty heights of the quarterdeck as an officer in His Majesty's Navy. If he is to avoid spending the rest of his career as a tarpaulin officer, he must also become a gentleman. Kydd and his enigmatic friend Nicholas Renzi set sail in HMS Tenacious for the North American station. Aboard the old 64-gun ship, Kydd comes to doubt he will ever match up to the high-born gentlemen officers. The frontier town of Halifax, which is also home to a British prince of the blood, provides a welcome diversion.

Meanwhile, the young United States is in dispute with revolutionary France, the Quasi War, and Kydd finds himself in the USS Constellation in the heady days of the birth of the American Navy.

On his return to Halifax, Kydd surmounts more hurdles, both personal and professional -- will he ever see himself as truly one of a band of brothers? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Anything is Possible Elizabeth Strout (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

26 Feb 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 196g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241248799 ISBN13: 978-0-241-24879-9 ISBN10: 0241248795 EAN: 9780241248799 x Description: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.

Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors.'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

My Name Is Lucy Barton: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

11 Oct 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241248782 ISBN13: 978-0-241-24878-2 ISBN10: 0241248787 EAN: 9780241248782

x Description: *A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION*An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years. As they talk Lucy finds herself recalling her troubled rural childhood and how it was she eventually arrived in the big city, got married and had children. But this unexpected visit leaves her doubting the life she's made: wondering what is lost and what has yet to be found.'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 'So good it gave me goosebumps. One of the best writers in America' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lie Down In Darkness William Styron (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

10 Jul 2000

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 278g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099284994 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928499-4 ISBN10: 0099284995 EAN: 9780099284994 x Description: In this novel, the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and the industrialisation of a rural society. But more than a novel of time and place, it is the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that is blocked, hurt and perverted. Peyton Loftis, who frantically needs a husband precisely because she loves her father; the decadent Milton, whose infidelity has made his marriage no more than a stage drama; and Helen, his wife, who loves only what she can control - her crippled daughter Maudie, or the childish part of her husband. This extraordinarily powerful novel is the portrait of a family who, in the words of Sir Thomas Browne in his URN BURIAL, 'all lie down in darkness'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Set This House On Fire William Styron (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Apr 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 425g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099285557 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928555-7 ISBN10: 009928555X EAN: 9780099285557 x Description: The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in the is relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export and UK open market ed

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

04 Feb 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 329pp h178mm x w111mm 199g ISBN13: 9780747558323 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-5832-3 ISBN10: 0747558329 x Description: Captures the loves and losses of a dying man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Otherhood Mr William Sutcliffe (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

08 Aug 2019

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm 214g ISBN13: 9781526608352 ISBN13: 978-1-5266-0835-2 ISBN10: 1526608359 EAN: 9781526608352 x Description: First published as Whatever Makes You Happy, the hilarious and moving novel about mothers and their adult sons, now a Netflix original movie starring Felicity Huffman, Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette which has now been viewed on over 27 million accounts worldwide Three sons. Three mums. One week.

Matt, Daniel and Paul were childhood friends. Now in their thirties, they've lost touch and have only one thing in common: their mothers. Little do they know that, having spent a cardless Mother's Day discussing how their emotionally dysfunctional offspring should be settling down, Carol, Gillian and Helen have decided to pay their wayward sons a visit. On the same day, they turn up on their sons' doorsteps, uninvited and unannounced. Their plan is to reestablish the mother-son bond by moving in for one week. Just a week. Surely that's not a lot to ask... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Last Orders (Film Tie-In) Graham Swift (Author) Series:

Edition:

Media tie-in

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

07 Dec 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm x s19mm 200g ISBN13: 9780330489676 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48967-6 ISBN10: 0330489674 EAN: 9780330489676 x Description: Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out this perculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. 'His finest book to date; emotionally charged and technically surperb...Last Orders is about how we live and how we die and our struggle to make abiding connections between the two' Times Literary Supplement 'Inspired...His finest novel yet' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gem Squash Tokoloshe Rachel Zadok (Author) Series:

Edition:

Unabridged edition

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

16 Sep 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w130mm x s21mm 224g ISBN13: 9780330441193 ISBN13: 978-0-330-44119-3 ISBN10: 0330441191 EAN: 9780330441193 x Description: She just sat there hardly moving, staring at the drive. Black marks formed under her eyes where her lashes bled their waxy coating onto her skin. Her rouged cheeks were smudged. Mother looked like she was melting in the heat. Faith leads an isolated existence on her family's drought stricken farm in the Northern Transvaal of South Africa. When the rain stopped, her father took to the road as a travelling salesman, returning only at weekends. Now Faith lives with her mother Bella and dog Boesman anticipating his visits - until one day he stops coming and Bella's health begins to go into rapid decline. Fifteen years later Bella has died incarcerated in the Sterkfontein asylum for the criminally insane. Faith has not spoken to her mother for ten years and is on the brink of a breakdown of her own. Now, with her mother's death, she inherits the farm and must return to confront the dark mysteries of the past . . . In prose as lithe and imaginative as that of Alexandra Fuller, Rachel Zadok te Riele recreates the voice of a young girl growing up during the height of apartheid unrest in South Africa. As Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and come to terms with the beliefs her society and upbringing have inculcated in her, what emerges is a richly compelling, emotionally resonant tale of courage set against the backdrop of a chaotically divided and deeply beautiful country. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Layover Lisa Zeidner (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Methuen Publishing Ltd

Publisher:

Methuen Publishing Ltd

Pub Date:

08 Jun 2000

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 267pp h198mm x w129mm 201g ISBN13: 9780413747006 ISBN13: 978-0-413-74700-6 ISBN10: 041374700X x Description: Throw away your ideas of a heroine, and meet Claire Newbold. Her son has died. Her husband's been playing around. And Claire has had enough. Checking out of work and home to confront love and loss on the road, she develops a scam for staying in hotel rooms for free. She ignores all calls and messages. She plays the seductress after seventeen years as a faithful wife. Her behaviour ranges from the illicit to - she fears the deranged as she looks for a way to get through grief and mend her marriage and her life. As taut as a thriller, provocative, poignant and beautifully written, Layover is the unforgettable story of a woman on the edge, and her search for a very personal redemption. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Chess: A Novel Stefan Zweig (Author) Anthea Bell (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

26 Jan 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 80pp h181mm x w113mm x s6mm 61g ISBN13: 9780141023373 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102337-3 ISBN10: 0141023376 x Description: On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer.

He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a soft-spoken voice from the crowd begins to whisper nervous suggestions. There are perfect moves and brilliant predictions. The speaker has not played a game for more than twenty years, he says. He is wholly unknown. But somehow, he is also entirely formidable!

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The Key Tanizaki, Junichiro (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

05 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 160pp 89g ISBN13: 9780099466871 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946687-1 ISBN10: 0099466872 EAN: 9780099466871 x Description: 'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to mention even here. I have always avoided commenting on my sexual relations with Ikuko, for fear that she might surreptitiously read my diary and be offended...' So begins The Key - a forthright and moving tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's thoughts and desires...until the day Ikuko discovers the key to her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. The key, she realises, to his very soul... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic Elizabeth Taylor (Author) Paul Bailey (Introduction by) Series:

Virago Modern Classics

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

24 Jun 1982 (01 Mar 2001)

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780860682639 ISBN13: 978-0-86068-263-9 ISBN10: 0860682633 EAN: 9780860682639 x Description: On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel, where she will spend the rest of her days. Her fellow residents, magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, live off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in the relentless round of hotel meals. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper.And then one day Mrs Palfrey encounters the handsome young writer, Ludo, and learns that even the old can fall in love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Naked Man Festival: (And Other Excuses to Fly Around the World) Brian Thacker (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Allen & Unwin

Publisher:

Allen & Unwin

Pub Date:

01 Oct 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 276pp h195mm x w130mm 270g ISBN13: 9781741143997 ISBN13: 978-1-74114-399-7 ISBN10: 1741143993 EAN: 9781741143997 x Description: It was only a degree above zero and the rain was coming down in sheets, yet here I was about to run around in nothing more than a nappy. I was pretty sure it was going to be the silliest thing I'd ever done 'Join Brian Thacker as he embarks on a round-the-world odyssey in search of as many silly, outlandish and even staggeringly banal festivals as time, distance and severe bouts of exposure will allow. Along the way he is pelted with beans, overawed by giant snow cows and stampeded in a temple full of men wearing nappies in hot pursuit of a stick. And that's just in Japan.Brian also manages to narrowly escape being sacrificed by a Vodou priest in Haiti and to retain his eyebrows after celebrating Hogmanay in

Scotland. He discovers 101 new and interesting things to do with a tomato; meets a woman at the UFO Festival in Roswell who is regularly used by aliens for perverted medical experiments and hangs out at the Sydney Gay + Lesbian Mardi Gras with a bloke called Miss Stephanie. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Narcopolis Jeet Thayil (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

01 Dec 2012

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h197mm x w125mm x s18mm 250g ISBN13: 9780571275786 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27578-6 ISBN10: 0571275788 EAN: 9780571275786 x Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the city transforms itself over three decades.

In Old Bombay, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. But in Rashid's opium room on Shuklaji Street, the air is thick with voices and ghosts. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. And now there is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In broken Bombay, there are too many to count.

Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, Narcopolis portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hotel Honolulu (Om) Paul Theroux (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

02 May 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h180mm x w110mm 250g ISBN13: 9780141008738 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100873-8 ISBN10: 0141008733 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro (Om) Paul Theroux (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 May 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h181mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780141017570 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101757-0 ISBN10: 0141017570 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Granta Books

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

16 Mar 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 333g ISBN13: 9781783782673 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-267-3 ISBN10: 1783782676 EAN: 9781783782673 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016.

In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming.

As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to.

Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie.

Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new generation. It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution and its effects on personal and national identity, and an unforgettable meditation on China today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dogs at the Perimeter Madeleine Thien (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Granta Books

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

02 Feb 2012

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h215mm x w136mm ISBN13: 9781847086075 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-607-5 ISBN10: 1847086071 EAN: 9781847086075 x Description: 2005: In the midst of a cold Montreal winter, a Cambodian woman, known only to us as 'Jani', separates from her husband and son. She takes refuge in the apartment of her friend, the neurologist Hiroji Matsui, but one day he leaves the Brain Research Centre where they are both employed and disappears into the night.

We journey back thirty years from the moment of his vanishing to Janie as a young girl in Phnom Penh, where Cambodia is ruled by the brutal Khmer Rouge. People are seized in the night, families are torn apart, and hunger is everywhere. Helped by a defector, Janie escapes by sea, and arrives in Canada as a refugee. In Montreal, she meets Hiroji - whose brother James, a Red Cross doctor, disappeared in Cambodia in 1975 - and who, like Janie, is haunted by the many lives we carry within ourselves, and the unwieldy shards of history that we make efforts to displace, but fail to extinguish.

Weaving together these fragments in clean, luminous prose, Dogs at the Perimeter is a remarkable, unparalleled map of the mind's battle with memory, loss, and the unspeakable horrors of war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The White Hotel: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981 D M Thomas (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

02 Dec 1999 (04 Oct 2012)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h198mm x w134mm x s19mm 213g ISBN13: 9780753809259 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-0925-9 ISBN10: 0753809257 EAN: 9780753809259 x Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history.Now a BBC radio play starring Anne-Marie Duff and Bill Paterson, dramatised by Dennis Potter.'A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force' Salman Rushdie It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.'A remarkable and original novel . . . there is no novel to my knowledge which resembles this in technique or ideas. It stands alone' Graham Greene'Astonishing . . . A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness' John Updike'I quickly came to feel that I had found that book, that mythical book, that would explain us to ourselves' Leslie Epstein, New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Potters House Rosie Thomas (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Arrow Books Ltd

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

05 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h199mm x w130mm x s25mm 278g ISBN13: 9780099464822 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946482-2 ISBN10: 0099464829 EAN: 9780099464822 x Description: Olivia Giorgiadis has left her English roots behind. She lives on a tiny Greek island, married to a local man, mother to two small sons.

Year on year, island life has followed a peaceful unchanging rhythm. Until now. An earthquake ravages the coast, its force devastating the island. In the aftermath comes a stranger: an Englishwoman, destitute but for the clothes she wears. Olivia welcomes the stranger into her home, the potter's house. But as Kitty melts into the family and the village community, so Olivia begins to sense that her mysterious visitor threatens all she holds dear... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Divided Kingdom Rupert Thomson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export and UK open market ed

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Pub Date:

03 Apr 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747582908 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8290-8 ISBN10: 0747582904 x Description: It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night.

He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment. In an attempt to reform society, the government has divided the population into four groups, each representing a different personality type. The land, too, has been divided into quarters. Borders have been established, reinforced by

concrete walls, armed guards and rolls of razor wire. Plunged headlong into this brave new world, the boy tries to make the best of things, unaware that ahead of him lies a truly explosive moment, a revelation that will challenge everything he believes in and will, in the end, put his very life in jeopardy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Carrie Tiffany (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

21 Apr 2006

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h200mm x w130mm x s16mm 226g ISBN13: 9780330437776 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43777-6 ISBN10: 0330437771 EAN: 9780330437776 x Description: It is 1934, the Great War is long over and the next is yet to come. Amid billowing clouds of dust and information, the government `Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land. The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science is the key to successful farming, and that productivity is patriotic. In the swaying cars an unlikely love affair occurs between Robert Pettergree, a man with an unusual taste for soil, and Jean Finnegan, a talented young seamstress with a hunger for knowledge. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism, they marry and settle in the impoverished Mallee with the ambition of proving that a scientific approach to cultivation can transform the land. But after seasons of failing crops, and with a new World War looming, Robert and Jean are forced to confront each other, the community they have inadvertently destroyed, and the impact of their actions on an ancient and fragile landscape. Shot through with humour and a quiet wisdom, this haunting first novel vividly captures the hope and the disappointment of the era when it was possible to believe in the perfectibility of both nature and humankind. 'Beautifully written . . . kindly, sometimes hilarious and ultimately very sad' Times Literary Supplement 'A peach of a first novel by a writer with a deep understanding of relationships and the outside pressures that wear away the good soil' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction Colm Toibin (Edited by) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

29 Nov 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1120pp h237mm x w158mm x s48mm 1074g ISBN13: 9780140236507 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023650-7 ISBN10: 0140236503 x Description: This unique anthology illustrates the full range of Irish fiction from Gulliver's Travels to young contemporary writers like Roddy Doyle and Emma Donoghue. Including self-contained sections from novels as well as short stories, all the most important writers are represented, from Swift and Sterne through Joyce, Beckett and Wilde to modern masters like Banville and William Trevor. Colm Toibin's long introduction describes the contexts and particular strengths of Irish fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Flying Under Bridges Sandi Toksvig (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sphere

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

15 Nov 2001

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h131mm x w200mm x s22mm 218g ISBN13: 9780751531336 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3133-6 ISBN10: 0751531332 EAN: 9780751531336 x

Description: Inge Holbrook has lived the highlife ever since she left her sleepy Home Counties hometown of Edenford. Still fantastically fit at fortyplus, she has gone from Olympic gold medallist to becoming one of the 'faces' of the BBC. Blonde (since '87), tanned (since Christmas in the Caribbean) long legs (since for ever), she has an aura of success that never fails to be attractive. Eve Marshall hasn't. Catching her reflection in a tinfoil turkey display at her local supermarket, she sees someone old and fat, someone who looks like somebody's mother. Unlike her school friend Inge, Eve never left suburbia. Her contribution to the world wasn't to write or invent or win anything, but her two children, Tom and Shirley. Inge and Eve are part of the same generation, grew up in the same town, went to the same school together. But adult life has left them with nothing in common apart from their past - until the summer when their lives become entwined again, when one becomes a killer, and the other approves ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Live Bait (EE) P. J. Tracy (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

07 Apr 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h186mm x w115mm x s30mm 248g ISBN13: 9780141021539 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102153-9 ISBN10: 0141021535 EAN: 9780141021539 x Description: When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution ...

Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless.

Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past.

Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich, vivid characters as the author's debut Want to Play?, PJ Tracy's Live Bait is an electrifying thriller that explores the chilling extremes of evil and retribution. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sacred Country Rose Tremain (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

01 Sep 1993

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h196mm x w129mm x s24mm 260g ISBN13: 9780340561553 ISBN13: 978-0-340-56155-3 ISBN10: 0340561556 EAN: 9780340561553 x Description: At the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: she isn't Mary, she's a boy. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others also strive to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world.

'Hypnotic...curiously beautiful and strikingly original' Spectator _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Scroll of Benevolence John Trenhaile (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

02 Aug 1995

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback ISBN13: 9780261665675 ISBN13: 978-0-261-66567-5 ISBN10: 0261665677 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Children of Dynmouth William Trevor (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 Sep 2001

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h200mm x w137mm x s13mm 164g ISBN13: 9780141186641 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118664-1 ISBN10: 014118664X EAN: 9780141186641 x Description: A small, pretty seaside town is harshly exposed by a young boy's curiosity. His prurient interest, oddly motivated, leaves few people unaffected - and the consequences cannot be ignored. This is a remarkable account of the evil that can lurk in the most harmless setting and for readers now it has the startling ability to bring back to life the now very strange seeming English world of thirty years ago. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Searching For Caleb Anne Tyler (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Feb 1996 (04 Aug 2016)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 298g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099591917 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959191-7 ISBN10: 009959191X EAN: 9780099591917 x Description: Discover Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's deeply personal American historical epic.Duncan Peck is a restless man, always on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912 never to be seen again. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots, to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one... **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 1 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE** 'One of my favourite authors' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Stella Descending Linn Ullmann (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

06 Aug 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 134g ISBN13: 9780330433396 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43339-6 ISBN10: 0330433393 EAN: 9780330433396 x Description: On a warm summer night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky games that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the edge of their rooftop, seven stories up. Amid the shouts of horrified onlookers, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin's arms before plummeting to her death. (Did he try to save her?)So begins Linn Ullmann's transfixing tale of a jealous wife, compliant mistress, treasured friend, angelic nurse, unloved daughter, devoted mother - and finally, a woman possessed of a secret now forever lost to the living. As Stella's life unfolds in the recollections of those she has left beind, we observe the fabric of many unravelling lives. And as Stella herself bears witness from a place beyond death, we come to understand how precarious her life was behind its facade of loveliness and order. With a quiet power, STELLA DESCENDING gives us the backlit dailiness - and the dark metaphysical underworld - of life in a fabled metropolis. And in brilliantly evoking the loneliness that haunts all our intimacies, it becomes a fable of life everywhere. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Pascali's Island Barry Unsworth (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

21 Oct 1980

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h197mm x w129mm x s14mm 142g ISBN13: 9780140058611 ISBN13: 978-0-14-005861-1 ISBN10: 0140058613 x Description: On the Agean island where Pascali the spy is filing his last report to his Turkish paymasters, the old Europe can already be heard dropping apart. Why Pascali, exposed and in deadly danger, should choose this moment to become involved with a mysterious Englishman is part of this, his testament. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bilbao - New York - Bilbao Kirmin Uribe (Author) Elizabeth Macklin (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

UK ed.

Imprint:

Seren

Publisher:

Poetry Wales Press

Pub Date:

29 Oct 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning h208mm x w135mm 0 ISBN13: 9781781722053 ISBN13: 978-1-78172-205-3 ISBN10: 1781722056 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Snap Happy Fiona Walker (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Coronet Books

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

06 May 1999 (14 Apr 2003)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h178mm x w113mm x s37mm 316g none ISBN13: 9780340682272 ISBN13: 978-0-340-68227-2 ISBN10: 0340682272 EAN: 9780340682272 x Description: A budding stand-up comic, Juno is voluptuous, hedonistic, funny and terminally untidy. On her thirtieth birthday, she decides to have a wild one-night-stand to mark the occasion. But seducing her new flatmate before he's had a chance to unpack his belongings is not a wise move. Just over from New York, Jay Mulligan is intense, mysterious and, as Juno joyously discovers, far better than breakfast in bed. It's only when they both get out of that bed on the wrong side three days later that the problems start ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Gulf Breeze Sightings Edward M. Walters (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Avon Books

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Pub Date:

01 Apr 1991

Publishing Status:

Unknown

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 10pp h178mm x w108mm 204g illustrations (some colour), maps ISBN13: 9780380708703 ISBN13: 978-0-380-70870-3 ISBN10: 0380708701 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Leto Bundle Marina Warner (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

07 Feb 2002

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w130mm x s27mm 340g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099284659 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928465-9 ISBN10: 0099284650 EAN: 9780099284659 x Description: When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander, stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe and into the present day, Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer, and begins to search for her son. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Lost Father Marina Warner (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Apr 1998

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099767411 ISBN13: 978-0-09-976741-1 ISBN10: 0099767414 EAN: 9780099767411 x Description: Like Visconti's film The Leopard, this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism.According to family legend, David Pittagora died as a result of a duel. His death is the mysterious pivot around which his grand-daughter, an independent modern woman, constructs an imaginary memoir of her mother's background and life. She follows the family as they emigrate to New York - where they find only humiliation and poverty - and after their return to Italy in the early 1920's. As she is drawn by the passions and prejudices of her own imagination, we see how family memory, like folk memory, weaves its own dreams. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

River (Om) Wastvedt Tricia (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

05 May 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780141021003 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102100-3 ISBN10: 0141021004 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Graduate Charles Webb (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

30 Apr 1981

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 138g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780140026931 ISBN13: 978-0-14-002693-1 ISBN10: 0140026932 EAN: 9780140026931 x Description: 'For twenty- one years I have been shuffling back and forth between classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got me.'

That's how Benjamin Braddock talked when he came down from university. Somehow it didn't seem to be what his father expected from a college education, and everyone was really appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson (that was her story anyway) and ran off with her daughter in the middle of her wedding to someone else... a brilliantly sordid tale of a young man's search for identity and a portrayal of the worst-behaved yet most sympathetic anti-hero of the day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Chasing Harry Winston Lauren Weisberger (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

27 May 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 220g ISBN13: 9780007262717 ISBN13: 978-0-00-726271-7 ISBN10: 000726271X EAN: 9780007262717 x Description: From the author of the million copy bestselling The Devil Wears Prada.

Three best friends. Two resolutions. One year to pull it off.

Emmy has just split with her boyfriend of five years. A serial monogamist, she suddenly realises how much she's missed the thrill of single life. A new job travelling across the globe could offer her the one thing she is craving, so she vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-stringsattached fun.

Adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires. Yet all she wants is an eligible bachelor who'll slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger.

Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her and more, she just can't refuse.

The three friends make a pact - come hell or high water, they must change one thing in their lives by the end of the year... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Chasing Harry Winston Lauren Weisberger (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

27 May 2008

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 180g ISBN13: 9780007268603 ISBN13: 978-0-00-726860-3 ISBN10: 0007268602 EAN: 9780007268603 x Description: THE HOTLY AWAITED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, SET TO BE THE MUST-HAVE SPRING ACCESSORY FOR 2008.

Leigh, Adriana and Emmy are best friends, all leading very different lives and about to make some extreme choices...

Emmy has just split with her boyfriend of five years. A serial monogamist, she suddenly realises how much she's missed the thrill of single life. A new job travelling across the globe could offer her the one thing she is craving.

Emmy finds herself single for the first time in years. She vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-strings-attached fun.

Adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires.Yet she wants an eligible bachelor who'll slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger.

Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her, she just can't refuse.

Knocking back raspberry mojitos one night, the three friends make a pact - to change one thing in their lives by the end of the year.

Let the fun begin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Everyone Worth Knowing Lauren Weisberger (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

10 Oct 2005

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 280g ISBN13: 9780007182657 ISBN13: 978-0-00-718265-7 ISBN10: 0007182651 EAN: 9780007182657 x Description: Dripping with New York glamour, this bestseller will capture the hearts of all those who loved The Devil Wears Prada Bette gets paid to party ...

And she can hardly believe her luck. Gaining VIP access to Manhattan's hottest spots and meeting 'everyone worth knowing' is a million miles away from her old job. Overnight, New York has become her sexy late-night playground.

But quicker than you can say Chanel, Bette turns up in the gossip columns as girlfriend to a notorious British playboy. It's news that delights her new boss - but her friends want to know what's happened to the girl they love, who always had time for nights filled with 80s music, junk food, trashy rom-coms and her mates.

Can Bette say goodbye to the parties and the Prada and step back into the real world - and find a prince who's got a heart to match his charm? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Last Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren Weisberger (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

17 Aug 2010

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s27mm 230g ISBN13: 9780007354832 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735483-2 ISBN10: 0007354835 EAN: 9780007354832 x Description: THE HOTLY AWAITED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. Heartbreak, headlines and Hermes - welcome to Brooke's new world...

Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York - she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success - and their life changes for ever.

Soon they are moving in exclusive circles, dining at the glitziest restaurants, attending the most outrageous parties in town and jetting off to the trendiest hotspots in LA. But Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages, Brooke's world is turned upside down. Can her marriage survive the events of that fateful night at Chateau Marmont? It's time for Brooke to decide if she's going to sink or swim... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Praxis Fay Weldon (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

01 Aug 1987

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h198mm x w130mm x s19mm 232g ISBN13: 9780340595800 ISBN13: 978-0-340-59580-0 ISBN10: 0340595809 EAN: 9780340595800 x Description: PRAXIS is a modern classic: the portrait of a woman set in time, yet timeless. We see her first as the innocent Praxis Duveen, aged five; watch her, as the men in her life come and go, through many drastic changes in fortune and circumstance. Until, from a prison both psychological and real, she emerges as Patty Fletcher, considered as bad as a woman can be and yet her own mistress. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The History of Mr.Polly H. G. Wells (Author) Clive Swift (Read by) Ann Rees Jones (Abridged by) Series:

Penguin audiobooks

Edition:

Abridged edition

Imprint:

Penguin Audiobooks

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Pub Date:

27 Jun 1996

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom 2 Audio cassettes (Audiobook) 2pp h140mm x w107mm x s17mm 125g 180mins ISBN13: 9780140861747 ISBN13: 978-0-14-086174-7 ISBN10: 0140861742 x Description: Mr Polly has spent years as a respectable shopkeeper. His life has little to offer but more tedium and poverty. So he settles on the idea of suicide and plans a fire that will destroy him. But in the mayhem that ensues, he forgets to kill himself and finds a whole new world waiting for him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

06 Sep 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 544pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 273g ISBN13: 9780330411509 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41150-9 ISBN10: 0330411500 EAN: 9780330411509 This Product is Replaced By: 9780330412940 x Description: Film tie-in edition of the international bestseller. When Siddalee Walker, eldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker (Ya-Ya extraordinaire - part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah) is interviewed about a hit play she has directed, her mother is described as a 'tap-dancing child abuser'.

Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda - devastating her daughter who postpones her wedding and puts her life on hold until she is granted forgiveness. Trying to repair the relationship, the Ya-Yas, Vivi's intrepid tribe of Louisiana girlfriends, sashay in and insist Sidda is sent 'The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood', a scrapbook of their lives together from the day in 1932 when they were disqualified from a Shirley Temple lookalike contest for unladylike behaviour. Expected to raise babies, not Cain, the Ya-Yas are bonded for life in an unforgettable exploration of the complexities of mother-daughter relationships and the power of female friendship.'A rattling good read, incorporating high drama, sultry sensuality and Southern charm' OBSERVER'One of those rare books you'll be pressing on all your friends' SHE _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Marabou Stork Nightmares Irvine Welsh (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

29 Feb 1996 (01 Jan 2009)

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099435112 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943511-2 ISBN10: 009943511X EAN: 9780099435112 x Description: Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lazarus Morris West (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Mandarin

Publisher:

Cornerstone

Pub Date:

07 Mar 1991

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h178mm x w112mm 210g ISBN13: 9780749304959 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-0495-9 ISBN10: 0749304952 x Description: This is the third and final volume in the trilogy that includes "The Shoes of the Fisherman" and "The Clowns of God". Set in the Vatican in Rome, Leo XIV, an iron-fisted Pope, lies on his sick-bed, his life threatened both by illness and terrorism. Conspiracy stalks the corridors of the Vatican. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Return Of The Soldier Rebecca West (Author) Sadie Jones (Introduction by) Series:

Virago Modern Classics

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

30 Jun 1980

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h197mm x w126mm x s11mm 154g ISBN13: 9780860681441 ISBN13: 978-0-86068-144-1 ISBN10: 0860681440 EAN: 9780860681441 This Product is Replaced By: 9781844086986 x Description: The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Wednesday Club Kjell Westoe (Author) Neil Smith (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

MacLehose Press

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

05 May 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h216mm x w134mm x s30mm 340g ISBN13: 9780857053510 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-351-0 ISBN10: 0857053515 EAN: 9780857053510 x Description: 1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in Helsinki's Wednesday Club. The members of this relaxed gentleman's club are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. But this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is having an effect on the cohesion of the group.Thune has recently divorced and is at something of a loss, running his law practice with no great enthusiasm. Luckily he has the assistance of an efficient new secretary, Matilda Wiik. But behind her polished exterior Mrs Wiik is tormented by memories of the Finnish Civil War, when she experienced horrors she has been trying to forget ever since. And one evening, with the Wednesday Club gathered in Thune's office, she hears a voice she hoped she would never hear again.She is suddenly plunged back into the past. But this time she is no longer a helpless victim . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 Colson Whitehead (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fleet

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

26 Apr 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h196mm x w127mm x s26mm 320g ISBN13: 9780708898406 ISBN13: 978-0-7088-9840-6 ISBN10: 0708898408 EAN: 9780708898406 x Description: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of BooksPraised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.In Whitehead's razorsharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Where Three Roads Meet Salley Vickers (Author) Series:

Myths

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

05 Jun 2008

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 154g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847670724 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-072-4 ISBN10: 1847670725 EAN: 9781847670724 x Description: It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex his strange story?Set partly in pre-war London and partly in ancient Greece, Where Three Roads Meet is as brilliantly compelling as it is moving. Former psychoanalyst and acclaimed novelist Salley Vickers revisits a crime committed long ago which still has disturbing reverberations for us all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Emperor's Bones Adam Williams (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

27 Mar 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 736pp h172mm x w112mm x s50mm 380g ISBN13: 9780340828144 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82814-4 ISBN10: 0340828145 EAN: 9780340828144 x Description: Beautiful, headstrong and unconventional, Catherine Cabot is twenty years old when she arrives in China. Against an uneasy political background a bittersweet, triangular love affair develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. And all the while, she is trying to uncover the truth of her past, unaware of the danger this might pose to her. Who is Henry Manners, the mysterious man who once wrote to her mother, and who she knows now lives in China? Running in parallel is the extraordinary story of Yu-Fu-kuei, a Chinese revolutionary working as a Communist spy.

She and Catherine met when they were at Oxford immediately after the Great War, and the friendship is deep and permanent. As the Japanese mass themselves on the borders, waiting for an excuse to invade, Catherine, ignorant of a history steeped in hatred, unwittingly becomes the perfect tool to settle the scores of two men who will stop at nothing to wreak their revenge. And Yu-Fu-kuei discovers that love might be the strongest weapon that any warrior has. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure Adam Williams (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

12 Apr 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 720pp h180mm x w110mm x s44mm 380g n/a ISBN13: 9780340827888 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82788-8 ISBN10: 0340827882 EAN: 9780340827888 x Description: A group of foreigners in the northeastern town of Shishan finds the status quo upset when Helen Frances, a young woman with a middle class upbringing but a fatal flaw, arrives and falls in love with the Hon Henry Manners. Will she betray her solid but possibly rather dull fiance While Helen Frances and Manners meet in the Palace of Heavenly Pleasure - Shishan's brothel, and the centre for all social activity in the town - the Chinese, who were quarrelling among themselves, are directing their anger towards all foreigners, and the position of Helen Frances, her father, her fiance and their friends, is becoming very unsure.The most astonishing range of characters awaits you in this novel; the wicked brothel-keeper Madam

Liu and her sadistic son Ren Ren, the pragmatic, rational missionary Dr Airton, the American zealot Septimus Harding, the equivocal Mandarin. Not to mention the wonderfully complicated anti-hero Henry Manners, the prostitutes Fan Yimei and Shen Ping, the bandit Iron Man Wang, the Mongolian shaman. And the ingenue, Helen Frances herself, whose innocence covers an unorthodox curiosity . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Aftershocks A. N. Wilson (Author) (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export/Airside

Imprint:

Atlantic Books

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Pub Date:

06 Sep 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h233mm x w155mm x s22mm 395g ISBN13: 9781786496041 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-604-1 ISBN10: 1786496046 EAN: 9781786496041 x Description: "It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn." ScotsmanOn The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and the seasons pass. The town of Aberdeen is no different, until the earthquakes. These seismic ripples tear down houses, forge bonds, and shake the foundations of humanity and religion. And in the midst of it all, Nellie and Ingrid fall in love.In Aftershocks A. N. Wilson offers a portrait of nature, death and morality. Moved by the real losses of the Christchurch earthquake, this is an extraordinary novel about a community profoundly linked to the land it lives on."Witty, erudite and artful." SpectatorCountry & Townhouse's the best books for Christmas, 2018 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ripley Bogle Robert McLiam Wilson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Vintage

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

16 Jun 1997

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 235g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780749394653 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-9465-3 ISBN10: 074939465X EAN: 9780749394653 x Description: 'I'm Ripley Bogle. I'm the prince of the pavements, I'm the Parkbench King and the cold winds of the outside permanently fleck my flesh.

To come with me, you must brave the air and the wide, bare boredom. The vast outdoors is my house and hall. It's with purpose, fear and gratitude that I stalk the streets of the city.'As the scene shifts from the streets of London, to Oxford and Belfast, the tramp, Ripley Bogle, narrates his gripping and alarming story in which it becomes increasingly difficult to tell what is true and what is fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Griever: An American Monkey King in China Gerald Vizenor Vizenor (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

University of Minnesota Press

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

Pub Date:

14 Jun 1990

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 240pp h216mm x w140mm ISBN13: 9780816618491 ISBN13: 978-0-8166-1849-1 ISBN10: 0816618496 EAN: 9780816618491 x

Description: Weaving political commentaries, cultural adventures and Chinese and Native American Indian myths into stories rich in adventure and mystery, this tale is about Griever de Hocus, a reservation-born tribal "trickster" and his accomplice who decide to go to the People's Republic of China and create havoc there by flouting the rigid conventions of socialism is a series of outrageous acts. From his hijacking of a truckload of condemned Chinese prisoners to his daring escape in an ultralight plane, Griever personifies the character of the Monkey King, the cosmic tribal "trickster" common to Chinese and Native American mythology. This book was winner of the Fiction Collective Prize and the 1988 American Book Award. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Heirs of Columbus Gerald Vizenor (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Wesleyan University Press

Publisher:

University Press of New England

Pub Date:

23 Aug 1991

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback / softback 198pp h216mm x w140mm ISBN13: 9780819562494 ISBN13: 978-0-8195-6249-4 ISBN10: 0819562491 EAN: 9780819562494 x Description: "If you must read a book on Columbus," declared the Los Angeles Times in its review of The Heirs of Columbus, "this is the one."

Gerald Vizenor's novel reclaims the story of Chrisopher Columbus on behalf of Native Americans by declaring the explorer himself to be a descendent of early Mayans and follows the adventures of his modern-day, mixedblood heirs as they create a fantastic tribal nation.

The genetic heirs of Christopher Columbus meet annually at the Stone Tavern at the headwaters of the Mississippi to remember their"stories in the blood" and plan their tribal nation. They are inspired by the late-night talk radio discourses of Stone Columbus, a trickster healer who became rich as the captain of the sovereign bingo barge Santa Maria Casino, anchored in the international waters of the Lake of the Woods. The heirs' plan to reclaim their heritage enrages the government and inspires the tribal nations in a comic tale of mythic proportions.

Vizenor is a mixedblood Chippewa who writes fiction in the trickster mode of Native American tradition, using humor to challenge received ideas and subvert the status quo. In The Heirs of Columbus he "reveals not only how Indians have staved off the tidal wave of assimilation," noted the San Francisco Chronicle, "but also how, through humor and persistence, they sometimes reverse the direction of cultural appropriation and, in the process, transform the alien values imposed on them."

"Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have,"noted Kirkpatrick Sale in the Nation; "Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents." And the Voice Literary Supplement said "Even more rousing than Vizenor's deconstruction of Columbus, though, is his alternative vision of an American identity." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim (Author) Sarah Dunant (Introduction by) Series:

Virago Modern Classics

Edition:

Imprint:

Virago Press Ltd

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

27 Nov 1991

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h132mm x w200mm x s19mm 227g ISBN13: 9780860685173 ISBN13: 978-0-86068-517-3 ISBN10: 0860685179 EAN: 9780860685173 x Description: 'An enchanting novel, witty, touching and very perceptively written, which will sweep you into wisteria and sunshine' Santa MontefioreA discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a revelatory month for four very different women. High above the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline Dester, each quietly craving a respite. Lulled by the Mediterranean spirit, they gradually shed their skins and discover a harmony each of them has longed for but never known.First published in 1922, this delightful novel is imbued with the descriptive power and light-hearted irreverence for which Elizabeth von Arnin is renowned.'Filled with hazy hills and fragrant flora, the novel is a dreamily sensuous description of the glories of Italian spring' Adam Nicolson, Mail on Sunday'Elizabeth von Armin's most charming novel in every sense: it casts a spell...a

sun-washed fairytale' Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

From Enemy Territory: Pale Diary Mladen Vuksanovic (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Saqi Books

Publisher:

Saqi Books

Pub Date:

21 Oct 2004

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 172pp h210mm x w135mm 190g 1 map ISBN13: 9780863567261 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-726-1 ISBN10: 0863567266 x Description: Set at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia, this diary, penned by the award-winning journalist Vuksanovic, records the extraordinary unfolding of events. The author lived in the ski resort of Pale, 15km above Sarajevo. In April 1992, when Radovan Karadzic launches his savage assault on the city. Vuksanoviae - refusing to collaborate - becomes a prisoner in his own home, cut off from his children and friends below. He expressed his terror and disgust within these pages. During that time, he describes in chilling detail not only the horrifying war - with the looting, ethnic cleansing and betrayal that became commonplace - but also the mental strain of war on the individual. He and his wife finally managed to escape in a UN refugee bus via Hungary to Croatia, smuggling with them these notes from enemy territory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When Red is Black Qiu Xiaolong (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export ed

Imprint:

Sceptre

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Pub Date:

19 Oct 2006

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h19mm x w111mm x s176mm 170g n/a ISBN13: 9780340897577 ISBN13: 978-0-340-89757-7 ISBN10: 0340897570 x Description: When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need, medical care for his mother. There are, it seems, no strings attached ...Then a murder is reported: Chen is loath to shorten his working holiday, so Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, a middle-aged teacher, has been found dead in her tiny room in a converted multi-family house. Only a neighbour could have committed the crime, but there is no motive. It is only when Chen returns and starts to investigate the past that he finds answers. But by then he has troubles of his own. This is the third critically acclaimed Inspector Chen mystery set in post-Cultural Revolution China. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Strangers Taichi Yamada (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

20 Jan 2005

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h216mm x w132mm ISBN13: 9780571224364 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22436-4 ISBN10: 0571224369 EAN: 9780571224364 x Description: Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada is forced to set up home in his office, situated in a high-rise apartment block overlooking Tokyo's busy Route 8. One night, nostalgic for his lost childhood, he decides to visit the entertainment district of Asakusa, the city's dilapidated old downtown area, and there, at the theatre, he meets a man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. So begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died so many years before. Although they may be apparitions, he takes solace in seeing them, in spite of the damage it seems to do to his health. Can Kei, the mysteriously fragile neighbour with whom Harada begins a tentative relationship, save him from the ghosts of his past?

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The Lost Daughter of Happiness Geling Yan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Export - Airside ed

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

05 Aug 2002

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 288pp h176mm x w110mm x s20mm 160g ISBN13: 9780571214624 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21462-4 ISBN10: 0571214622 This Product is Replaced By: 9780571253562 x Description: From one of China's most acclaimed writers, this is an erotic and exciting tale of forbidden love. Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers - by Chris' wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Liberated Bride A.B. Yehoshua (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Peter Halban Publishers Ltd

Publisher:

Peter Halban Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

20 Nov 2003

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h139mm x w215mm x s43mm 618g ISBN13: 9781870015868 ISBN13: 978-1-870015-86-8 ISBN10: 187001586X EAN: 9781870015868 x Description: Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions, the first and most ambitious, is to understand the Arab mind - no mean feat in itself though perhaps made easier by the fact that he lives and works with Israeli Arabs. The second - and more personal, though equally hard to grasp - is to understand the failure of his elder son's marriage. Rivlin's two quests lead him to extraordinary - and at times highly entertaining - encounters with very disparate people, where the personal becomes intertwined with the political, as he searches out the truth both in politics and life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

K: The Art of Love Hong Ying (Author) Series:

Edition:

New edition

Imprint:

Black Swan

Publisher:

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Feb 2004

Publishing Status:

Out of print

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp 205g ISBN13: 9780552772013 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77201-3 ISBN10: 0552772011 x Description: Based on a true story, K tells the story of the passionate and illicit affair between Julian Bell (son of Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf) the darling of the Bloomsbury set and the beautiful Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Cheng, set against the vivid backdrop of decadent 1930s Peking. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Baby Love (The Angeline Gower Trilogy, Book 1) Louisa Young (Author) Series:

The Angeline Gower Trilogy 1

Edition:

Imprint:

The Borough Press

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

08 Oct 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 200g ISBN13: 9780007577989 ISBN13: 978-0-00-757798-9 ISBN10: 0007577982 EAN: 9780007577989 x Description: `Spectacularly worth reading' The TimesLonglisted for the Orange Prize A fast-paced literary thriller in which ex-belly dancer Evangeline's fight to protect three-year-old Lily draws her into the seedy underworld of her past - the first book in Louisa Young's celebrated Angeline Gower trilogy.

Angeline Gower had no choice, and now she's very glad she didn't.

Angeline is reformed. She's thrown off the bike, the travel, the dancing, and taken on the care of her late sister's baby, Lily. Domestic bliss has trumped wild adventure. At least - until a misdemeanour leaves her owing a crooked cop a favour (and what a favour) re-treading her old life, befriending her old boyfriend and oh, getting in with a drug cartel.

Never confounded by the intricate web of lies and deceit that lead her away from Lily, Angeline is a heroine of the new guard in this deliciously funny and razor-sharp tale. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Heroes' Welcome Louisa Young (Author) Series:

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The Borough Press

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HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

23 Mar 2015

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 310g ISBN13: 9780007361472 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736147-2 ISBN10: 0007361475 EAN: 9780007361472 x Description: The Heroes' Welcome is the incandescent sequel to the bestselling R&J pick My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You. Its evocation of a time deeply wounded by the pain of WW1 will capture and beguile readers fresh to Louisa Young's wonderful writing, and those previously enthralled by the stories of Nadine and Riley, Rose, Peter and Julia.

LONDON, 1919 Two couples, both in love, both in tatters, come home to a changed world.

When childhood sweethearts Riley and Nadine marry, it is a blessing on the peace that now reigns. But the newlyweds and their old friends Peter and Julia Locke wear the ravages of the Great War in very different ways. Where Nadine and Riley do their best to forge ahead and muster hope, Peter retreats into drink and nightmares, unable to bear the domestic life for which Julia pines. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You Louisa Young (Author) Series:

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The Borough Press

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HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

05 Jan 2012

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 290g ISBN13: 9780007361441 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736144-1 ISBN10: 0007361440 EAN: 9780007361441 x

Description: A letter, two lovers, a terrible lie. In war, truth is only the first casualty. `Inspires the kind of devotion among its readers not seen since David Nicholls' One Day' The Times While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead?

Moving between Ypres, London and Paris, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You is a deeply affecting, moving and brilliant novel of love and war, and how they affect those left behind as well as those who fight. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________