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| "War and Turpentine" |
| "WINNER OF THE VONDEL PRIZE 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times Sunday Times and The Economist and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York TimesShortly before his death Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life He grew up in poverty around 1900 the son of a struggling church painter who died young and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13 Afternoons spent with his father at work on a church fresco were Urbain's heaven; the iron foundry an inferno During the First World War Urbain was on the front line confronting the invading Germans and ever after he is haunted by events he can never forget The war ends and he marries his great love Maria Emelia but she dies tragically in the 1919 flu epidemic Urbain mourns her bitterly for the rest of his life but like the obedient soldier he is he marries her sister at her parents' bidding The rest is not quite silence but a marriage with a sad secret at its heart and the consolations found in art and painting War and Turpentine is the imaginative reconstruction of a damaged life across the tumultuous decades of the twentieth century; a deeply moving portrayal of family grief love and war"
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| "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance : 40th Anniversary Edition" |
| "Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974 transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live Resonant with the confusions of existence Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life"
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| "Sexing The Cherry" |
| "Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after but not with their husbands With a new introduction by the author'A book of innocence and bawdiness fury and joyneeds to be read and re-read' The Times'Read it and marvel Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling'Cosmopolitan'Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life A bold bizarre and timely book'Independent'Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it swift confident and dazzling' Financial Times"
Price: 6.99 |
| "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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| "In a Dark, Dark Wood" |
| "THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICESHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS' BOOK OF THE YEAR'This year's hottest crime novel'IndependentNora hasn't seen Clare for ten years Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back Until out of the blue an invitation to Clare's hen party arrives A weekend in a remote cottage - the perfect opportunity for Nora to reconnect with her best friend to put the past behind her But something goes wrong Very wrong And as secrets and lies unravel out in the dark dark wood the past will finally catch up with Nora 'Genuinely chilling and totally compulsive'Sunday Mirror'Mesmerising'Guardian'You won't be able to put down this creepy page-turner'Closer'A tense terrifying novel'Clare Mackintosh author of I Let You Go"
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| "Written On The Body" |
| "Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights the accumulation of a lifetime gather there In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes never unfold too much tell the whole story I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands She has translated me into her own book"
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| "The Powerbook" |
| "The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality The story is simple An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else You can be the hero of your own life You can have freedom just for one night But there is a price to pay"
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| "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Paperback/softback, 2014)" |
| "Over ten million copies sold&39;Outstandinga stunningly good read&39; Observer&39;Mark Haddon&39;s portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement Wise and bleakly funny&39; Ian McEwan The 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 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&39;s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down"
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| "The End of Eddy" |
| "A brilliant novel courageous necessary and deeply touching' GuardianEdouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line His bestselling debut novel about life there The End of Eddy has sparked debate on social inequality sexuality and violence It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood inspired by the author's own Written with an openness and compassionate intelligence ultimately it asks how can we create our own freedom?A mesmerising story about difference and adolescence' New York TimesEdouard Louisis that relatively rare thing - a novelist with something to say and a willingness to say it without holding back' The TimesLouis' book has become the subject of political discussion in a way that novels rarely do' Garth Greenwell New Yorker"
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| "Peak : How All of Us Can Achieve Extraordinary Things" |
| "You don't have to be a genius to achieve extraordinary things In this fascinating book Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool explain that learning new skills doesn't need to be daunting Musical prodigies sports stars and leading scientists acquire their special abilities through training - and all of us can do the same Based on thirty years of pioneering research Peak shows that success simply requires the right kind of practice and offers essential advice on setting goals receiving guidance and motivating ourselves The astonishing stories prove that whether we're at work or at school in the music room or on the sports field we can master almost anything 'Remarkablewho among us doesn't want to learn how to get better at life?'Stephen J Dubner co-author of Freakonomics'This bookcould truly change the world'Joshua Foer author of Moonwalking with Einstein'Groundbreakingbrilliantly useful'Daniel Coyle author of The Talent Code"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Kept Woman : (Will Trent Series Book 8)" |
| "The latest novel in the Will Trent series from No 1 bestselling author Karin Slaughter A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse It's the body of an ex-cop and from the moment Special Agent Will Trent walks in he knows this could be the most devastating case of his career Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim - a woman - has left the scene and vanished into thin air And worst of all the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest most politically-connected most high-profile athlete - a local hero protected by the world's most expensive lawyers A local hero Will has spent the last six months investigating on a brutal rape charge But for Will - and also for Dr Sara Linton the GBI's newest medical examiner - the case is about to get even worse Because an unexpected discovery at the scene reveals a personal link to Will's troubled past The consequences will wreak havoc on his life and the lives of those he loves those he works with and those he pursues But Sara's scene-of-the-crime diagnosis is that they only have a few hours to find the missing woman before she bleeds out"
Price: 7.99 |
| "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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| "Biggles Goes to War by W. E. Johns (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "The escort fell in on either side of the prisoners and at a word of command the party moved forward Down the corridor it marched and through an open door into a grim-looking courtyard Across this it proceeded and came to a halt against a wall on the far side-Biggles glanced at the sky It was just turning pink with the first flush of dawn 'If Ginger is going to do the rescue act he hasn't got much time left' He observed calmly-Algy said nothing His face was pale In the uneasy atmosphere of Europe between the two World Wars Biggles Algy and Ginger are persuaded to defend a small middle European country from an aggressive neighbour backed up by an unnamed Big Power"
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| "Isle of Joy by Dan Winslow (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "New York Late 1958Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA setting honeytraps and reeling in the victims of his plots But Withers has returned to his hometown for an easier safer life as a Private Investigator Manhattan in the late Fifties is alive with new possibilities new sounds and new faces including young presidential hopeful Senator Joe Keneally Withers is assigned to bodyguard Keneally's girlfriend at a society gathering a simple enough job But next morning she's dead - and Withers is the prime suspect To clear his name Withers must take on his old masters from the CIA as well as J Edgar Hoover's FBI all of them determined to set Keneally up And Withers expert hunter becomes another disposable victim of the trap closing in on the Senator"
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| "Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Rennie Wilford a young jounalist running from her life takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks no strings affair she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption"
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| "The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIESThe Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs Brilliantly conceived and executed this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony wit and astute perception"
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| "Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Students and journalists farmers and birdwatchers ex-wives adolescent lovers - and dancing girls All ordinary people - or are they? In this splendid collection of short stories Margaret Atwood maps the human motivation we scarcely know we have in a startlingly original voice full of rare intensity and exceptional intelligence With brilliant flashes of fantasy humour and unexpected violence these stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who evoke laughter compassion terror and recognition and dramatically demonstrate why Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today"
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| "London Fields by Martin Amis (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "There is a murderer there is a murderee and there is a foil Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something usually for a lover usually for love And this is a love story But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else her murderer She knows the time she knows the place she knows the motive she knows the means She just doesn't know the man London Fields is a brilliant funny and multi-layered novel It is a book in which the narrator Samson Young enters the Black Cross a thoroughly undesirable public house and finds the main players of his drama assembled just waiting to begin It's a gift of a story from real lifeall Samson has to do is write it as it happens"
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| "Night Train by Martin Amis (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "'I worked one hundred murders' says Detective Mike Hoolihan an American policewoman 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths most of which turned out to be suicides accidentals or plain unattendeds So I've seen them all jumpers stumpers dumpers dunkers bleeders floaters poppers bursters But of all the bodies I have ever seen none has stayed with me in my gut like the body of Jennifer Rockwell I say all this because I am part of the story I am going to tell and I feel the need to give you some idea of where I'm coming from' Night Train is a mystery story which lingers in the reader's mind even after Mike Hoolihan declares the case closed"
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| "The Child In Time by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning Stephen Lewis a well-known writer of children's books turns his back momentarily When he looks around again his child is gone In a single moment everything is changed The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen's life and marriage Memories and the present become inseparable - as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past - and time bends back on itself dragging Stephen's own childhood back into the present"
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| "The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "In the relentless summer heat four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy isolated world and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves"
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| "Sula by Toni Morrison (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVEDAs 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 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 MORRISONIt 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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| "Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "The island of Antigua is a magical place growing up there should be a sojourn in paradise for young Annie John But as in the basket of green figs carried on her mother's head there is a snake hidden somewhere within Annie John begins by adoring her beautiful mother but inexplicably she comes to hate her Adolescence takes this brilliant headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret discoveries - and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home"
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| "Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "Prisoner of war optometrist time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim hero of this miraculously moving bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know"
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| "Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison Howard W Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter He has used such a typewriter before when he worked as a Nazi propagandist under Goebbels Though that was before he agreed to become a spy for US military Is Howard guilty? Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world that's a gazillion shades of grey?"
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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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| "The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man a young boy and a giant fish It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature Here in a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives Not a single word is superflous in this widely admired masterpiece which once and for all established his place as one of the giants of modern literature"
Price: 5.49 |
