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| "Platform by Michel Houellebecq (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture When his father is murdered Michel takes a leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers only the awkward Valerie attracts his attention Too bashful to pursue her Michel prefers the uncomplicated pleasures of Thai massage parlours and sex with local women Back in Paris he calls Valerie and they plunge into a passionate affair which strays into S&M partner-swapping and sex in public Michel quits his job and tries to help Valerie and her boss Jean-Yves in their ailing travel business by offering travel packages based on sex tourism in the third world When their project comes to fruition and the three return to Thailand Michel discovers that sex is neither the most consuming nor the most dangerous of human passions"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Alpha Force: Survival: Book 1 by Chris Ryan (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The first in an exciting new series for children from ex-SAS officer and bestselling adult author Chris Ryan Five kids Alex Li Paulo Hex and Amber are marooned on a desert island where they must face the ultimate test - survival! Killer komodo dragons sharks and modern day pirates are amongst the dangers they face Can the five bond as a team - and stay alive?"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Alpha Force: Hostage: Book 3 by Chris Ryan (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Target Toxic WasteFlying to Northern Canada to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste the Alpha Force team must dive into an icy river cross the harsh landscape on snowmobiles and test their caving skills to complete their mission But they need all their courage and determination when they come face-to-face with a man who is ready to kill - or take a hostage - to stop them High-octane thrills from a master of adventure bestselling author TV presenter and an ex-SAS hero CHRIS RYAN Includes Chris Ryan's top SAS tips on Safety and Survival in and around water"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "The classic tale of a journey through war-torn Europe Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War Two Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope As they travel through Europe towards Switzerland where they believe they will be reunited with their parents they encounter many hardships and dangers This extraordinarily moving account of an epic journey gives a remarkable insight into the reality of a Europe laid waste by war"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Jewel In The Crown by Paul Scott (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942 everything is in flux World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters Against this background Daphne Manners a young English girl is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens The racism brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dreadful violence perpetrated on Daphne and reveal the desperate state of Anglo-Indian relations The rift that will eventually prise India - the jewel in the Imperial Crown - from colonial rule is beginning to gape wide"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Farthing Wood - The Adventure Begins by Colin Dann (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "There had always been otters in the stream running through Farthing Wood - and that had never been a problem for the other animals before both sets of animals were happy to leave each other alone But when there is a shortage of fish in the stream the otters take to coming ashore for new prey - and that is a problem Suddenly the Farthing Wood animals have to compete for food - and they don't like it Lean Vixen and the others are determined not to starve and that means deciding on a plan to drive the otters out once and for all"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "My brother Shiva and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954 We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa capital city of Ethiopia Bound by birth we were driven apart by bitter betrayal No surgeon can heal the would that divides two brothers Where silk and steel fail story must succeed To begin at the beginning"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life what is sexual desire and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire Then a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island Sumire has mysteriously vanished"
Price: 6.49 |
| "After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "For the characters in after the quake the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm 'When he gets angry he causes earthquakes' says Frog 'And right now he is very very angry"
Price: 6.99 |
| "South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters His sole companion was Shimamoto also an only child Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection But when his family moved away the two lost touch Now Hajime is in his thirties After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters and success running a jazz bar Then Shimamoto reappears She is beautiful intense enveloped in mystery Hajime is catapulted into the past putting at risk all he has in the present"
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| "The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "When a man's favourite elephant vanishes the balance of his whole life is subtly upset A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "High-class call girls billed to Mastercard A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers A one-armed beach-combing poet an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance"
Price: 8.49 |
| "A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "His life was like his recurring nightmare a train to nowhere But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that when uncovered they improve sex a thousand-fold a runaway friend a right-wing politico an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit implicate them in a hunt for a sheep that may or may not be running the world and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan's finest novelist"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Toru Okada's cat has disappeared His wife is growing more distant every day Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving As this compelling story unfolds the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life spent cooking reading listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table are turned inside out and he embarks on a bizarre journey guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters each with a tale to tell"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "When he hears her favourite Beatles song Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo adrift in a world of uneasy friendships casual sex passion loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years As he plans his picture he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there Chapter by chapter the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of every more unlikely tales which range from an avenging murderer to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime"
Price: 8.99 |
| "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "The Gulag the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation has become a household word in the West This is due to the accounts of many witnesses but most of all to the publication in 1962 of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich the novel that first brought Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to public attention His story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps Translated from the Russian by H T Willetts"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Broken April by Ismail Kadare (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "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"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLDThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other The detective and narrator is Christopher Boone Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings He loves lists patterns and the truth He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down 'Outstandinga stunningly good read' Observer'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement Wise and bleakly funny' Ian McEwan Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Red Sorghum by Mo Yan (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Spanning three generations this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s As the novel opens a group of villagers led by Commander Yu the narrator's grandfather prepare to attack the advancing Japanese Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food the Japanese start firing and she is killed Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war's progress the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family's history"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Point Of Impact by Stephen Hunter (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "In the jungles of Vietnam Bob Lee Swagger was known as 'Bob the Nailer' for his high-scoring target rate at killing Today the master sniper lives in a trailer in the Arkansas mountains and just wants to be left alone But he knows too much- about killing The mission is top secret Dangerous patriotic and rigged from the start One thing goes wrong double-crossed Bob has come out alive Now he is on the run His only allies an FBI agent in disgrace and a beautiful woman His only hope find the elusive mastermind who set him up Multi-layered with non-stop action this hot-shot torcher of a thriller is addictive exciting and right on target A high-tech high-ride reading experience"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Time's Arrow tells the story backwards of the life of Nazi war criminal Doctor Tod T Friendly He dies and then feels markedly better breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'It's not really kidnapping is it? He'd have to be alive for it to be proper kidnapping'Kenny Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway After a depressing and dispiriting funeral they feel taking Ross to Ross will be a fitting memorial for a 15 year-old boy who changed all their lives through his friendship Little do they realise just how much Ross can still affect life for them even though he's now dead Drawing on personal experience Keith Gray has written an extraordinary novel about friendship loss and suicide and about the good things that may be waiting just out of sight around the corner"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Ted Wallace is an old sour womanising cantankerous whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic but he has his faults too Fired from his newspaper months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan But strange things have been going on at Swafford Miracles Healings Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted With this funny and deliciously readable novel Stephen Fry takes his place as one of the most talented comic novelists of his generation"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Making History by Stephen Fry (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds Together they realise that they have the power to alter history and eradicate a great evil But tinkering with timelines is more dangerous than they can imagine and nothing - past present or future - will ever be the same again Making History is funny moving romantic and told with Stephen Fry's characteristic skill and brilliance"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Engleby by Sebastian Faulks (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Mike Engleby has a secret This is the story of Mike Engleby a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university But with the disappearance of Jennifer the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar the story turns into a mystery of gripping power Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue unlike anything he has ever written before contemporary demotic heart-wrenching - and funny in the deepest shade of black"
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| "Kafka On The Shore" |
| "Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy The aging Nakata tracker of lost cats who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down As their parallel odysseys unravel cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II There is a savage killing but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece"
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| "Haunted Paperback / Softback" |
| "Haunted is a novel made up of stories twenty-three of the most horrifying hilarious mind-blowing stomach-churning tales you&39;ll ever encounter They are told by the people who have all answered an ad headlined &39;Artists Retreat Abandon your life for three months&39; They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of &39;real life&39; that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them But &39;here&39; turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theatre where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and most importantly food are in increasingly short supply And the more desperate the circumstances become the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations to make themselves the hero of the inevitable playmovienon-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight"
Price: 8.49 |
| "I Capture The Castle (Vintage Classics) Paperback" |
| "&39;I write this sitting in the kitchen sink&39; is the first line of this timeless witty and enchanting novel about growing up Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere Her journal records her life with her beautiful bored sister Rose her fadingly glamorous stepmother Topaz her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer&39;s block However all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Snows Of Kilimanjaro" |
| "In these early Hemingway stories which are partly autobiographical men and women of passion live fight love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal America with its deceptive calm and war-ravaged Europe"
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