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| "Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "The New York Times bestselling new novel about modern family lives from the author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly CloseDiscover Jonathan Safran Foer&39;s greatest novel yet&39;Towering and glorious a tale of social familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World The funniest literary novel I have ever read&39; The TimesPicked by Nick Cave for the Florence & the Machine &39;Between Two Books&39; June book clubJacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested By Jacob&39;s grandfather who won&39;t go quietly into a retirement home By the family reunion that everyone is dreading By their son&39;s heroic attempts to get expelled And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage A typical modern American family the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart Which is when catastrophe decides to strike Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human with inventiveness playfulness and compassion Here I Am is a great American family novel for our times an unmissable read for fans of Jonathan Franzen and Michael Chabon a masterpiece about how we live now &39;A rich beautifully written ambitious and grandly moving novel which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual lives&39; Evening Standard&39;Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity it&39;s impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family&39; Time&39;Astonishing So sad and so funny and so wry&39; Scotland on Sunday"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom is one of the most powerful and original fiction debuts of recent years 'Profoundly moving I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this' Amitav Ghosh 'Hilarious reckless brilliant' Kiran Desai In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid Her husband - Augustine the 'Big Hoom' - and two children must endure her 'microweathers' swings from searing joy to brooding malevolence And here is the story of how this family of four came to be Of how Imelda was courted by Augustine - 'Hello Buttercup' - and of how with the passage of time and the arrival of her children she slowly turned into Em loving and loathing a world terrified of her extravagant excesses 'A near-perfect account of a psychologically troubled mother Touching and funny' Irish Times 'Delightful Pinto is quite a genius with dialogue' Guardian Jerry Pinto has been a mathematics tutor school librarian and journalist and is now associated with MelJol an NGO that works in the sphere of child rights He has edited several anthologies including most recently an anthology on his native city Mumbai"
Price: 3.99 |
| "And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave's classic Gothic novel in its full and original formOutcast mute a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets incest and ignorance When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty Euchrid is disturbed He sees her very differently and his conviction and increasing isolation and insanity may have terrible consequences for them bothIn 2009 Cave released a cut-down version of his novel but this reissue restores the full uncut text as first published in 1989Compelling and astonishing in its baroque richness Nick Cave's acclaimed first novel is a fantastic journey into the twisted world of Deep Southern Gothic tragedy This book will be adored by readers of Will Self William Faulkner and Falnnery O'Connor as well as fans of the cult rock star everywhereAn explosion of linguistic brio and Gothic grotesquery horrifying funny and tragic' Michel Faber Guardian'As if a Faulkner novel had been crossed with Whistle down the Wind and then narrated by a stoned blues musician heady' Daily TelegraphNick Cave was born in Australia in 1957 He moved to London with his band The Birthday Party in 1990 and four years later he formed The Bad Seeds with whom he has made 15 studio albums In recent years he has made two albums with his other band Grinderman In 1999 he curated and directed the Meltdown Festival at London's South Bank Centre He has also written the soundtrack for a number of successful films including The Assassination of Jesse James Lawless and The Proposition His novel And the Ass Saw the Angel was an international bestseller Time Out's Book of the Year and was reissued in the Penguin Essential series His second novel The Death of Bunny Monroe was published in 2009 He lives in Brighton with his family"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The London Mapguide (8th Edition)" |
| "A completely revised edition of the award-winning bestselling London Mapguide by Michael Middleditch - the best streetmap on the marketMichael Middleditch has revised and updated his hugely successful LONDON MAPGUIDE - first published in 1983 and now in its eighth edition Streets and sights are mapped and named and there is a full index so that it can be used like the London A-Z In addition famous landmarks places of entertainment etc are indicated on the maps This edition has a brand-new spread on London architecture and the Stratford Olympic area is fully incorporated into the bookAt 72 pages of full colour maps this is the perfect book for every tourist and city-dwellerFor many years Michael Middleditch was chief cartographer at Geographia He created the Mapguides especially for Penguin and there are four award-winning and highly successful titles in the series New York Paris London and the Map of the World"
Price: 4.99 |
| Landmarks |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words landscape and the relationship between the twoWords are grained into our landscapes and landscapes are grained into our words Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place It is a field guide to the literature of nature and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England Scotland Ireland and Wales to describe land nature and weatherTravelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin J A Baker Nan Shepherd and others Robert Macfarlane shows that language well used is a keen way of knowing landscape and a vital means of coming to love it"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Hot Milk" |
| "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 HomeTwo women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez - a man of questionable methods and motives Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in yearsThrough the opposing figures of mother and daughter Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood Dreamlike and utterly compulsive Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency a story both modern and timeless"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Elizabeth is Missing" |
| "Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma HealeyWinner of the Costa First Novel Award 2014Shortlisted for National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book 2014Shortlisted for National Book Awards New Writer of the Year 2014Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2014Longlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction 2015'A thrillingly assured haunting and unsettling novel I read it at a gulp' Deborah Moggach author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'Elizabeth Is Missing will stir and shake you the most likeably unreliable of narrators real mystery at its compassionate core' Emma Donoghue author of Room 'Resembling a version of Memento written by Alan Bennett' Daily Telegraph'One of those mythical beasts the book you cannot put down' Jonathan Coe author of The Rotters Club'Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests Gripping haunting' Observer'If you're after a read you can't put down then look no further' New!Meet MaudMaud is forgetful She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it She goes to the shops and forgets why she went Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total strangerBut there's one thing Maud is sure of her friend Elizabeth is missing The note in her pocket tells her so And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it to leave it alone to shut up Maud will get to the bottom of itBecause somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery One everyone has forgotten about Everyone except Maud"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Guns of August : The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War" |
| "Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to warWar pressed against every frontier Suddenly dismayed governments struggled and twisted to fend it off It was no use Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the classic account of the conflict's opening From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914 Tuchman shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum'Dazzling' Max Hastings'Magnificent' Guardian'Fascinating splendid glittering One of the finest works of history' New York Times'A brilliant achievement' Sunday TelegraphBarbara Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Guns of August She is also the author of The Proud Tower Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize) A Distant Mirror and The March of Folly She died in 1989 The Proud Tower and The Zimmerman Telegram are published by Penguin"
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| "Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera &39;It was inevitable the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love&39;Fifty-one years nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza&39;s impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead During that half-century Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women but has loved none but Fermina Having sworn his eternal love to her he lives for the day when he can court her againWhen Fermina&39;s husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?&39;The most important writer of fiction in any language&39; Bill Clinton&39;An exquisite writer wise compassionate and extremely funny&39; Sunday Telegraph&39;An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women&39; The Times"
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| "One Hundred Years of Solitude" |
| "One of the world's most famous novels One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature blends the natural with the supernatural in one of the most magical reading experiences on earth'Many years later as he faced the firing squad Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo the town they have built Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains Macondo has its wars and disasters even its wonders and its miracles A microcosm of Columbian life its secrets lie hidden encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny Blending political reality with magic realism fantasy and comic invention One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century'Dazzling' The New York Times"
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| "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" |
| "Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera 'On the day they were going to kill him Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on'Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim But nobody did anything to prevent the killing Twenty seven years later a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk To at last understand what happened to Santiago and why 'A masterpiece' Evening Standard'A work of high explosiveness - the proper stuff of Nobel prizes An exceptional novel' The Times'Brilliant writer brilliant book' Guardian"
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| "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" |
| "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia DavisWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013'Big rejoicing Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International prize Never did a book award deliver such a true match-winning punch Best of all a new audience will read her now and find her wit her vigour and rigour her funniness her thoughtfulness and the precision of form which mark Davis out as uniqueDaring excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic she reminds you in a world that likes to bandy its words about what words such as economy precision and originality really mean This is a writer as mighty as Kafka as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making in her own way as Proust A two-liner from Davis or a seemingly throwaway paragraph will haunt What looks like a game will open to deep seriousness; what looks like philosophy will reveal playfulness tragicomedy ordinariness; what looks like ordinariness will ask you to look again at Davis's writing In its acuteness it always asks attentiveness and it repays this by opening up to its reader like possibility or like a bush covered in flowerheadsShe's a joy There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith'What stories Precise and piercing extremely funny Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' Metro'I loved these stories They are so well-written with such clarity of thought and precision of language Excellent' William Leith Evening Standard'Remarkable Some of the most moving fiction - on death marriage children - of recent years To read Collected Stories is to be reminded of the grand echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee A writer of vast intelligence and originality' Independent on Sunday'A body of work probably unique in American writing in its combination of lucidity aphoristic brevity formal originality sly comedy metaphysical bleakness philosophical pressure and human wisdom' New Yorker'Davis is a high priestess of the startling telling detail She can make the most ordinary things such as couples talking or someone watching television bizarre almost mythical I felt I had encountered a most original and daring mind' Colm Toibin Daily TelegraphLydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice Blanchot Michel Leiris and Marcel Proust"
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| "The Climb: The Autobiography Paperback" |
| "WINNER OF THE 2018 GIRO D&39;ITALIA! THREE TIME WINNER OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE THE FIRST MAN SINCE BERNARD HINAULT TO HOLD THE MAGLIA ROSA THE MAILLOT JAUNE AND THE MAILLOT ROJO AT THE SAME TIME THIS IS CHRIS FROOME IN HIS OWN WORDS &39;Engaging vividly evoked&39; Mail on Sunday Books of the Year&39;What Chris has done is phenomenal&39; Sir Chris HoyGrowing up in Kenya biking down mile after mile of dusty road and staying in a humble tin hut he developed a fierce passion and determination to win The road to Europe was long gruelling and filled with setbacks - but it prepared him for teamwork as a domestique and then the leap to leader of Team Sky and a shot at winning the Tour de France In The Climb written with the renowned investigative reporter David Walsh he vividly recounts the struggles the rivalries the battles the comebacks Finally he traces his path to triumph and his mission to help clean up cycling Inspiring and exhilarating it will leave you ready to face your own challenges in life whatever they may be"
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| "The Tea Planter's Wife" |
| "THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'My ideal read - I couldn't put it down' Santa Montefiore Dinah Jefferies' unforgettable new novel The Tea Planter's Wife is a haunting tender portrait of a woman forced to choose between her duty as a wife and her instinct as a motherNineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism eager to join her new husband But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in London Distant and brooding Laurence spends long days wrapped up in his work leaving his young bride to explore the plantation alone It's a place filled with clues to the past - locked doors a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk an overgrown grave hidden in the grounds far too small for an adultGwen soon falls pregnant and her husband is overjoyed but she has little time to celebrate In the delivery room the new mother is faced with a terrible choice one she knows no one in her upper class set will understand - least of all Laurence Forced to bury a secret at the heart of her marriage Gwen is more isolated than ever When the time comes how will her husband ever understand what she has done? The Tea Planter's Wife is a story of guilt betrayal and untold secrets vividly and entrancingly set in colonial era Ceylon"
Price: 7.99 |
| "On Anarchism" |
| "On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theoryOn Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought specifically his constant questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power The book gathers his essays and interviews to provide a short accessible introduction to his distinctively optimistic brand of anarchism Refuting the notion of anarchism as a fixed idea and disputing the traditional fault lines between anarchism and socialism this is a book sure to challenge provoke and inspire Profoundly relevant to our times it is a touchstone for political activists and anyone interested in deepening their understanding of anarchism or of Chomsky's thought'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York TimesNoam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling and influential political books including Hegemony or Survival Failed States Interventions What We Say Goes Hopes and Prospects Gaza in Crisis Making the Future and OccupyNathan Schneider is the author of Thank You Anarchy Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse and God in Proof The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet"
Price: 4.99 |
| "About a Boy Paperback" |
| "Nick Hornby&39;s second bestselling novel is about sex manliness and fatherhood Will is thirty-six comfortable and child-free And he&39;s discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish he&39;s got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit and both can start to act their age"
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| "About a Boy" |
| "About a Boy is Nick Hornby&39;s comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller&39;How cool was Will Freeman?&39;Too cool! At thirty-six he&39;s as hip as a teenager He&39;s single child-free goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear He&39;s also found a great way to score with women attend single parents&39; groups full of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet Marcus is a bit strange he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers But Marcus latches on to Will - and won&39;t let go Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult Fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere &39;A stunner of a novel Utterly read-in-one-day forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping&39; Marie Claire&39;About the awful hilarious embarrassing places where children and adults meet and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision&39; Irish Times&39;It takes a writer with real talent to make this work and Hornby has it - in buckets&39; Literary Review"
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| "The Art of Travel" |
| "The Art of Travel is Alain de Botton's travel guide with a differenceFew activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling taking off for somewhere else somewhere far from home a place with more interesting weather customs and landscapes But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to we seldom ask why we go and how we might become more fulfilled by doing soWith the help of a selection of writers artists and thinkers - including Flaubert Edward Hopper Wordsworth and Van Gogh - Alain de Botton's bestselling The Art of Travel provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars airports to sight-seeingThe perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there The Art of Travel tries to explain why we really went in the first place - and helpfully suggests how we might be happier on our journeys'Richly evocative sharp and funny De Botton proves himself to be a very fine travel writer indeed' Sunday Telegraph'Delightful profound entertaining I doubt if de Botton has written a dull sentence in his life' Jan Morris'An elegant and subtle work unlike any other Beguiling' Colin Thubron The Times"
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| "Don't Point That Thing at Me : The First Charlie Mortdecai Novel" |
| "Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli - Book 1 of the Mortdecai Trilogy now a major motion picture starring Johnny DeppIntroducing the Hon Charlie Mortdecai art dealer aristocrat and assassin in the first of the Mortdecai novelsPortly art dealer and seasoned epicurean Charlie Mortdecai comes into possesion of a stolen Goya the disappearance of which is causing a diplomatic ruction between Spain and its allies Not that that matters to Charlie until compromising pictures of some British diplomats also come into his possession and start to muddy the waters All he's trying to do is make a dishonest living but various governments secret organizations and an unbelievably nubile young German don't see it that way and pretty soon he's in great need of his thuggish manservant Jock to keep them all at bay and the Goya safeFirst published in the 1970s this hilarious novel is part Ian Fleming part P G Wodehouse It is now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp as Mortdecai Ewan McGregor as Jock and Gwyneth Paltrow'A rare mixture of wit and imaginative unpleasantness' Julian Barnes'You couldn't snuggle under the duvet with anything more disreputable and delightful' Stephen Fry'The jokes are excellent but the most horrible things keep happening Funny and chilling' Sunday TelegraphKyril Bonfiglioli was born on the south coast of England in 1928 of an English mother and Italo-Slovene father After studying at Oxford and five years in the army he took up a career as an art dealer like his eccentric creation Charlie Mortdecai He lived in Oxford Lancashire Ireland and Jersey where he died in 1985 He wrote four Charlie Mortdecai novels and a fifth historical Mortdecai novel (about a distinguished ancestor)"
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| "Invisible Man" |
| "New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America Invisible Man'I am invisible understand simply because people refuse to see me'Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell where he smokes drinks listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society as an optimistic student in the Deep South in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood and in the Harlem race riots And explains how he came to be living underground"
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| "One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Hardback, 2014)" |
| "Penguin's commemorative hardback reissue of One Hundred Years of Solitude by late Nobel laureate and author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a timeless classic and the perfect Christmas gift for any bookloverGabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid energetic tender and unforgettable; they have touched the lives of readers across the globe and earned him countless awards including the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the wake of the author's death his most beloved novel is reissued in commemorative hardback edition One Hundred Years of Solitude is endlessly fascinating an intricately patterned work of fiction and a joyful irrepressible celebration of humanity Vibrantly colourful and teeming with life this timeless tale blends the natural with the supernatural in one of the most magical reading experiences on earth'Many years later as he faced the firing squad Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo the town they have built Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains Macondo has its wars and disasters even its wonders and its miracles A microcosm of Columbian life its secrets lie hidden encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny Blending political reality with magic realism fantasy and comic invention One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century'Dazzling' The New York Times"
Price: 11.99 |
| "The Boy Who Could See Death by Salley Vickers (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "From Salley Vickers bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel comes The Boy Who Could See Death an enchanting and unsettling collection of short storiesEli is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary gift It will shape the course of his whole life but he learns the hard way he must keep it hidden from those who know him best Seeing death is a mixed blessingEli is not the only one defying the world's expectations of him Cousin Francesca a charming spinster and a favourite with the children is harbouring kleptomaniac tendencies Sarah Palliser living alone next to a ramshackle graveyard is more scared of the small box under her stairs than the ghosts outside her window Meanwhile dreamy artist Nan is nursing a growing obsession with wolves in Britain and the recently widowed Frances finds herself inventing an exotic imaginary boyfriend to pass the timePush through an unassuming front door on an unremarkable street or peer into the glowing fluorescent windows of an urban office block and within you'll find strange and unforgettable scenes normal people caught in situations they do not quite comprehendSalley Vickers is a master of the uncanny and the unexpected In this collection of eleven remarkable stories she explores bereavement and betrayal closely guarded secrets and common gossip long-overdue endings and decidedly strange beginnings Each story is perfectly formed a snapshot of a total stranger a fleeting glimpse of lives spiced with a little something extra"
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| Brooklyn |
| "Colm Toibin&39;s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love loss and one woman&39;s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey as for so many young Irish girls opportunities are scarce So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York Eilis knows she must go leaving behind her family and her home for the first time Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed She is far from home - and homesick And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship and perhaps something more Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love &39;With this elating and humane novel Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork&39; Sunday Times&39;Unforgettable&39; Spectator&39;The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time&39; Zoë Heller Guardian Books of the Year&39;Magnificent&39; Sunday Telegraph&39;A work of such skill understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life&39; Ali Smith TLS Books of the YearWhen you are finished why not read the companion novel Nora Webster"
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| "Thus Bad Begins" |
| "Award-winning author Javier Marias weaves a darkly thrilling tale of love betrayal and lives played out in the unhappy shadow of history As a young man Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel a famous film director sophisticated and discreet Muriel's wife Beatriz is a soft ripe woman who slips through her husband's home like an unwanted ghost finding solace in other beds And on the periphery of their lives stands Dr Jorge Van Vechten a old family friend with a shadowy past Juan enters eagerly into Muriel's world of glamour and prestige but as time passes he is troubled by many questions that seem to have no answer Why does Muriel hate Beatriz? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? And what happened in the chaotic years after the war?As Juan learns more about his employers his own innocence begins to fall away Though he starts off as a mere observer he is soon unable to stand on the side lines compelled to interfere ever more dangerously in the dark interior of other people's livesMarias presents a study of the infinitely permeable boundaries between private and public selves between observer and participant between the deceptions we suffer from others and those we enact upon ourselves'No one else anywhere is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph on The Infatuations"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Bastard of Istanbul" |
| "One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery 'I need to have an abortion' she announces She is nineteen years old and unmarried What happens that afternoon will change her lifeTwenty years later Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul Due to a mysterious family curse all the Kaznci men die in their early forties so it is a house of women among them Asya's beautiful rebellious mother Zeliha who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; and Feride a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay long hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge'Wonderfully magical incredible breathtakingwill have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' Sunday Express'A beautiful book the finest I have read about Turkey' Irish Times'Heartbreakingthe beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' Vogue"
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| "The Forty Rules of Love" |
| "The international bestseller"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation If we are the same person before and after we loved that means we haven&39;t loved enough" Ella Rubinstein has a husband three teenage children and a pleasant home Everything that should make her confident and fulfilledYet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella&39;s life - an emptiness once filled by love So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz and his forty rules of life and love her world is turned upside down She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored &39;Enlightening enthrallingAn affecting paean to faith and love&39; Metro&39;Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent&39; Daily Telegraph&39;The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself&39; The Times"
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| Honour |
| "From award-winning writer Elif Shafak the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice Honour is a tale of love betrayal and clashing cultures'A powerful book; thoughtful provoking and compassionate' Joanne Harris author of Chocolat'My mother died twice I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten 'Leaving her twin sister behind Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children Yet no matter how far they travel the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the blood Their eldest is the boy Iskender who remembers Turkey and feels betrayal deeper than most His sister is Esma who is loyal and true despite the pain and heartache And lastly Yunus who was born in London and is shy and differentTrapped by the mistakes of the past the Toprak children find their lives shattered and transformed by a brutal act of murder A powerful novel set in Turkey and London in the 1970s Honour explores pain and loss loyalty and betrayal the trials of the immigrant the clash of tradition and modernity as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tears families apart'Vivid storytelling that explores the darkest aspects of faith and love' Sunday Telegraph'Rich and wide as the Euphrates river along whose banks it begins and ends Elif Shafak has woven with masterful care and compassion one immigrant family's heartbreaking story - a story nurtured in the terrible silences between men and women trying to grow within ancient ways all the while growing past them I loved this book' Sarah Blake author of The Postmistress'Elif Shafak joins writers such as Hanif Kureishi Zadie Smith Monica Ali Aamer Hussein Andrea Levy Hanan al-Shakyh and Leila Aboulela who offer us fictional glimpses of London's Others' The Independent"
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| "In Order to Live : A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom" |
| "'I am most grateful for two things that I was born in North Korea and that I escaped from North Korea'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea She didn't even know what it meant to be free All she knew was that she was running for her life that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation or disease or even execution This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia with only the stars to guide her way and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday"
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| "Autumn : SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'In a country apparently divided against itself a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians' Financial Times'Undoubtedly Smith at her best Puckish yet elegant; angry but comforting' The Times 'A beautiful poignant symphony of memories dreams and transient realities The first post-Brexit novel' GuardianA 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 summerLove 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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| "The History of Love" |
| "Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The History of Love explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love 'Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating she sets out in search of its authorAcross New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book And although he doesn't know it yet that book also survived crossing oceans and generations and changing lives 'Wonderfully affectingbrilliant touching and remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph'A tender tribute to human valiance Who could be unmoved by a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday'Devastatingone of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction It takes one's breath away' Spectator"
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