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| "A Moveable Feast : The Restored Edition" |
| "Published posthumously in 1964 A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979 scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway Ernest's sole surviving son and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author Sean Hemingway this new edition also includes a number of unfinished never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack and his first wife Hadley Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries such as F Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft Sure to excite critics and readers alike the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced In the world of letters it is a unique insight into a great literary generation by one of the best American writers of the twentieth century"
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| "Stoner: A Novel by John Williams (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe Forty-eight years after its first quiet publication in the US Stoner is finally finding the wide and devoted readership it deserves Have you read it yet?William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture A seminar on English literature changes his life and he never returns to work on his father's farm Stoner becomes a teacher He marries the wrong woman His life is quiet and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely Yet with truthfulness compassion and intense power this novel uncovers a story of universal value Stoner tells of the conflicts defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history and reclaims the significance of an individual life A reading experience like no other itself a paean to the power of literature it is a novel to be savoured"
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| "No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Ten years on from 911 much of the Muslim faith remains largely unknown and misunderstood in the West While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history - from Karen Armstrong's Islam A Brief History to Bernard Lewis's The Crises of Islam - there is surprisingly no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion let alone one by an author from an Islamic background No God But God fills that gap addressing issues of belief the difference between the Quran and the Bible the meaning of the Hajj the Muslim relationship with Jesus the Muslim attitude towards Jews equality between the sexes and more This revised and updated edition includes a wealth of new material and new chapters covering recent uprisings in Tunisia Egypt and Libya; the changing face of Islam in Europe and North Africa; and a number of topics of heated debate (the veil controversy; Islam & women; Iraq War as a Jihadi recruiting agent etc)"
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| "The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Winner of the Man Booker Prize for FictionNow a major film starring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte RamplingTony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school Sex-hungry and book-hungry they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together trading in affectations in-jokes rumour and wit Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others certainly more intelligent but they all swore to stay friends for life Now Tony is retired He's had a career and a single marriage a calm divorce He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody Memory though is imperfect It can always throw up surprises as a lawyer's letter is about to prove 'A masterpiece' Daily Telegraph 'Mesmerising' Independent 'Wonderful' Irish Times"
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| "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "'Some things are just sitting there minding their own business waiting to be discovered Like America And other things are probably better off left alone'Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The grown-ups won't explain so Bruno decides there is only one thing for it - he will have to explore this place alone What he discovers is a new friend A boy with the very same birthday A boy in striped pyjamas But why can't they ever play together?BACKSTORY Read an interview with the author JOHN BOYNE and learn all about the Second World War in Germany"
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| "The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "&39;"People never like me and I never like people" Mary thought&39; When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen It is true too Mary is pale spoilt and quite contrary But she is also horribly lonely Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine BACKSTORY Take our quiz learn about the plucky author and find out about the real secret garden"
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| "A Sting in the Tale" |
| "A Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson PrizeDave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect our rarest bees Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent the short-haired bumblebee is now extinct in the UK but still exists in the wilds of New Zealand descended from a few queen bees shipped over in the nineteenth century A Sting in the Tale tells the story of Goulson's passionate drive to reintroduce it to its native land and contains groundbreaking research into these curious creatures history's relationship with the bumblebee the disastrous effects intensive farming has had on our bee populations and the potential dangers if we are to continue down this path"
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| "Midnight's Children" |
| "Born at the stroke of midnight at the precise moment of India's independence Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special For he is one of 1001 children born in the midnight hour children who all have special gifts children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked But there has been a terrible mix up at birth and Saleem's life takes some unexpected twists and turns As he grows up amidst a whirlwind of triumphs and disasters Saleem must learn the ominous consequences of his gift for the course of his life is inseparably linked to that of his motherland and his every act is mirrored and magnified in the events that shape the newborn nation of India It is a great gift and a terrible burden"
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| "An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Paris 1895 an army officer Georges Picquart watches a convicted spy Alfred Dreyfus being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil&39;s Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life A breathtaking historical spy thriller from Robert Harris author of Munich Conclave and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy"
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| "The Marches by Rory Stewart (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017This is travel writing at its best' Katherine Norbury Observer An Observer Book of the YearHis father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk and walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia Now they have chosen to do their final walk together along the Marches' - the frontier that divides their two countries Scotland and England Brian a ninety-year-old former colonial official and intelligence officer arrives in Newcastle from Scotland dressed in tartan and carrying a draft of his new book You Know More Chinese Than You Think Rory comes from his home in the Lake District carrying a Punjabi fighting stick which he used when walking across Afghanistan On their six-hundred-mile thirty-day journey - with Rory on foot and his father ambushing' him by car - the pair relive Scottish dances reflect on Burmese honey-bears and on the loss of human presence in the British landscape On mountain ridges and in housing estates they uncover a forgotten country crushed between England and Scotland the Middleland They cross upland valleys which once held forgotten peoples and languages - still preserved in sixth-century lullabies and sixteenth-century ballads The surreal tragedy of Hadrian's Wall forces them to re-evaluate their own experiences in the Iraq and Vietnam wars The wild places of the uplands reveal abandoned monasteries border castles secret military test sites and newly created wetlands They discover unsettling modern lives lodged in an ancient land Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood an anatomy of the landscape a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son And as the journey deepens and the end approaches Brian and Rory fight to match step by step modern voices nationalisms and contemporary settlements to the natural beauty of the Marches and a fierce absorption in tradition in their own unconventional lives"
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| "The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "'This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining'It's Christmas-time in the Stanton family house presents carol singing good cheer But for eleven-year-old Will Stanton something sinister has begun inching round his subconscious shouting silent warnings he can't decipher Then on Midwinter Day Will wakes up to a different world - silent covered in snow and ancient forest a world of another time A world where evil lurks Because Will is not the ordinary boy he always thought he was He is the last of the Old Ones and the power to vanquish the evil magic of the Dark lies within him Includes exclusive material In the Backstory you can read an interview with the author and discover the ancient beliefs that inspired the story Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
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| "The Collected Poems by Robert Frost (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost Hailed as the most eminent the most distinguished Anglo-American poet' by TS Eliot he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes In iconic poems like Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' simple images summon the rural landscape of New England and Frost unfailingly moves the reader with his profound grasp of the human condition This is the most comprehensive and authoritative volume of Frost's verse available comprising all eleven volumes of his poems meticulously edited by Edward Connery Lathem"
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| Armada |
| "FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG'A masterful tale of Earth's desperate struggle against a powerful alien foe' - Andy Weir bestselling author of The MartianIt's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman He's daydreaming through another boring math class with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom-if he can make it that long without getting suspended again Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer At first Zack thinks he's going crazy A minute later he's sure of it Because the UFO he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada-in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders But what Zack's seeing is all too real And his skills-as well as those of millions of gamers across the world-are going to be needed to save the earth from what's about to befall it Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught Zack can't help thinking of all the science-fiction books TV shows and movies he grew up reading and watching and wonder Doesn't something about this scenario seem a little too familiar? Armada is at once a rollicking surprising thriller a classic coming of age adventure and an alien-invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before-one whose every page is infused with author Ernest Cline's trademark pop-culture savvy"
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| "The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories" |
| "This title comes with an introduction by Helen Simpson From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood Bluebeard Puss in Boots Beauty and the Beast vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark sensual fantastic stories"
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| "Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MOTIONThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans Alexander McCall Smith Lynne Truss Amanda Vickery Francesca Segal PD James and Andrew Motion 'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Robert McCrum ObserverEmma is young rich and independent She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet however lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance"
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| "Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics Austen Series)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITHThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans Alexander McCall Smith Lynne Truss Amanda Vickery Francesca Segal PD James and Andrew Motion 'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentElizabeth Bennet is young clever and attractive but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands The arrival of the affable Mr Bingley and arrogant Mr Darcy in the neighbourhoos both single and in possession of large fortunes turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship rivalry enmity and love"
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| "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" |
| "A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school By chance all of their names contained a colour The two boys were called Akamatsu meaning red pine' and Oumi blue sea' while the girls' names were Shirane white root' and Kurono black field' Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it One day Tsukuru Tazaki's friends announced that they didn't want to see him or talk to him ever again Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life unable to form intimate connections with anyone But then he meets Sara who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago"
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| "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" |
| "WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Forever after there were for them only two sorts of men the men who were on the Line and the rest of humanity who were not In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation from cholera from beatings he receives a letter that will change his life forever This is a story about the many forms of love and death of war and truth as one man comes of age prospers only to discover all that he has lost"
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| "All That Man is : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZENine men Each of them at a different stage of life each of them away from home and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague beside a Belgian motorway in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive here and now Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are - ludicrous and inarticulate shocking and despicable; vital pitiable hilarious and full of heartfelt longing And as the years chase them down the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood"
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| Hag-Seed |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017Selected as a Book of the Year - Observer Sunday Times Times Guardian New Statesman i magazine Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival His productions have amazed and confounded Now he's staging a Tempest like no other It will boost his reputation It will heal emotional wounds Or that was the plan Instead after an act of unforeseen treachery Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter Miranda Also brewing revenge After twelve years revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison Here Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?"
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| "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" |
| "This is the story of Jeanette adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect Zealous and passionate she seems seems destined for life as a missionary but then she falls for one of her converts At sixteen Jeanette decides to leave the church her home and her family for the young woman she loves Innovative punchy and tender Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession With a new introduction by the author'Witty bizarre extraordinary and exhilarating'The Times'She is a master of her material a writer in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language In her hands words are fluid radiant humming' Evening Standard'A novel that deserves revisiting' Observer'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel'Mariella Frostrup"
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| "The Children Act" |
| "A brilliant emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam Fiona Maye a leading High Court judge renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case For religious reasons a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life Time is running out She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both"
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| "The Big Katie Morag Storybook by Mairi Hedderwick (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Welcome to the Island of Struay home of one of the best-loved characters in children's books and as seen on TV - Katie Morag McColl!This lavish book is packed with brand-new stories and poems featuring favourite characters from Katie Morag's island home Whether she's trying to keep the secret of Baking Day from her little brother Liam befriending a baby seal with the Holiday Children or even smoothing out troubles between her two very different grannies Katie Morag is always at the heart of this island and its special way of life"
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| "The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck (Paperback, 1990)" |
| "Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid And the very avoidance results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually Drawing heavily on his own professional experience leading psychiatrist Dr M Scott Peck suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding He discusses the nature of loving relationships how to recognise true compatibility how to distinguish dependency from love how to become one's own person and how to be a more sensitive parent This is the bestselling self-help book that will change the way you live and love for good"
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| "The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVEDToni Morrison's debut novel immerses us in the tragic torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline Cholly Sam and Pecola - 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 Winner of the PENSaul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction"
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| "Beloved by Toni Morrison (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "THE CLASSIC NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING TONI MORRISON It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home Kentucky Her dead baby daughter whose tombstone bears the single word Beloved returns as a spectre to punish her mother but also to elicit her love Told with heart-stopping clarity melding horror and beauty Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece Winner of the PENSaul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction"
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| "Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Every weekend in basements and parking lots across the country young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden projectionist waiter and dark anarchic genius And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth"
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| "Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice Remarkable for its contemporaneity unforgettable for character and incident Cry the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope courage and endurance born of the dignity of man"
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| "Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVEDSong of Solomon begins in 1930s America with Macon Dead Jr the son of a wealthy black property owner who has been brought up to revere the white world Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar though he is more concerned with escaping the familial tyranny of his own father So while Guitar joins a terrorist group of poor blacks Macon goes home to the South lured by tales of buried family treasure But his odyssey back home and a deadly confrontation with Guitar leads to the discovery of something infinitely more valuable than gold his past and the origins of his true self Winner of the PENSaul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction"
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| "Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason a miraculous weaving of science fiction memoir parable fairy tale and farce Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene"
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