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Changing Track
Paperback,
23/11/2017,
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Published in 1957 and awarded the prestigious Prix Renaudot, Michel Butor's groundbreaking third novel remains the most popular and widely read work of the nouveau roman genre.
Borne
Paperback,
03/03/2018,
£8.99
£8.09
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
The dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland.
Night Boat to Tangier
Hardback,
20/06/2019,
£14.99
£13.49
The new novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize
Day 21: The 100 Book Two
Paperback,
25/09/2014,
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In this pulse-pounding sequel to Kass Morgan's The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. And the hundred will struggle to survive the only way they can - together.
Way of Being Free
Paperback,
12/03/2015,
£6.99
£6.00
Twelve of Ben Okri's most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom.
Time Shards - Shatter War
Paperback,
24/09/2019,
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£7.19
Time shatters into shards of the past, present, and future. A group of survivors dodges threats from across history to locate the source and repair the damage before it's too late.
Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Detective Club Crime Classics) 90th Anniversary edition HB
Hardback,
19/05/2016,
£9.99
£8.99
Agatha Christie's most audacious crime mystery, reissued to mark 90 years since it was first published with a facsimile cover from 1931.
Weekend in New York
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
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Paul is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. But Paul's parents and siblings have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open, and with summer storms brewing, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point .
Seduction and Betrayal
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
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These magnetic essays are nothing less than a reckoning, dissecting relations between the sexes, women and writing, work and life.
Hardwick's provocative essays were first published in 1974 and won loyal admiration from writers including Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Cynthia Ozick, Derek Walcott, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Sandcastle
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
Black Prince
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
Sea, The Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
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VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. But then he meets his childhood sweetheart Hartley, and memories of her lovely, younger self crowd in - along with more recent lovers and friends - to disrupt his self-imposed exile.
Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
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VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. But beneath the gentle daily routines of this community run currents of supressed desire, religious yearning and a legend of disastrous love.
Hollywood
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£9.99
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Charles Bukowski lays bare Hollywood, revealing the absurdity and egotism behind the glamour
Adjustment Day
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
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The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.
To Calais, In Ordinary Time
Hardback,
29/08/2019,
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The new novel about home, belonging, love, courage and identity, set in the fourteenth century, from the Booker-longlisted author of The People's Act of Love
Wall
Paperback,
05/09/2019,
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If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights.
The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. Along with the rest of his squad, he will endure cold and fear day after day, night after night.
Milkman
Hardback,
05/09/2019,
£14.99
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Liberty fabric covered editions bring classics from the Faber backlist together with important modern titles, putting them in conversation and celebrating both the history and the future of Faber & Faber.
Too Good To Be True
Paperback,
04/02/2016,
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£3.59
A Quick Read from the bestselling crime author of Raven Black.
Plague
Paperback,
01/07/2010,
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'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.
Myth of Sisyphus
Paperback,
30/03/2000,
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Is life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? In this book, the author argues if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. It also argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty.
Outsider
Paperback,
13/12/2004,
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Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Paperback,
05/03/2020,
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Rich with magic and danger, Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the stunning sequel to Tomi Adeyemi's New York Times bestselling and award winning West African-inspired fantasy, Children of Blood and Bone.
Chrysalids
Paperback,
07/08/2008,
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David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret abberation which would label them as mutants.
Kraken Wakes
Paperback,
07/08/2008,
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It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people. This book narrates how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.
Chocky
Paperback,
02/07/2009,
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Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things. Who is Chocky? And what could it want with a 11-year-old boy?
Plan for Chaos
Paperback,
07/01/2010,
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In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancee looks identical to the victims too - and then she disappears.
Consider Her Ways: And Others
Paperback,
04/09/2014,
£8.99
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Offers a collection of author's short tales.
Doomsday Book
Paperback,
08/11/2012,
£12.99
£11.69
A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel of plague and time travel by an SFWA Grand Master of Science Ficiton.
Nightingale Point
Paperback,
23/01/2020,
£8.99
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THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER
A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK
'A sharp, funny, wonderful writer' Diana Evans, bestselling author of Ordinary People
'Compelling...finely crafted, compassionate' Guardian
Shameless
Paperback,
02/05/2002,
£10.99
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* 'Fag Lit' comes out of the closet: the ONLY contemporary, commercial gay novel on the market!
* 'Witty, intelligent and very, very funny ... it deserves a wide readership' TIME OUT
Dangerous Visions
Paperback,
09/02/2012,
£9.99
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One of the most influential anthologies of all time returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.
Ten Big Ones: A witty crime adventure filled with high-stakes suspense
Paperback,
06/06/2005,
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Stephanie Plum is racing against the clock in Ten Big Ones, the tenth hilarious mystery n the Stephanie Plum series by No. 1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich
Seven Up: The One With The Mud Wrestling: A fast-paced and hilarious mystery
Paperback,
06/06/2005,
£8.99
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The funniest and sassiest crime writer in modern fiction, Janet Evanovich presents Seven Up, the seventh instalment in the hilarious Stephanie Plum series
Sunfall
Hardback,
18/04/2019,
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£12.99
Our planet seems to be turning against itself - it would appear that the magnetic field, that protects life on Earth from deadly radiation from space, is failing .
Machines Like Me
Hardback,
18/04/2019,
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£12.99
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms.
Sentence is Death
Paperback,
24/09/2019,
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Passion, deception, an unexplained death and a detective with quite a lot to hide lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant new murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne.
Watcher by the Threshold: Shorter Scottish Fiction
Paperback,
31/05/1997,
£12.00
£10.80
This is the first ever complete collection of all Buchan's shorter Scottish fiction.
Franny And Zooey
Hardback,
01/11/2018,
£12.99
£11.69
Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. SalingerA novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood.
Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
Hardback,
01/01/2019,
£12.99
£9.99
For fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and The Keeper of Lost Things, The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton is the story of a woman who has her heart broken, but then puts it back together again in the most uplifting and exquisite way.
Discomfort of Evening
Paperback,
19/03/2020,
£12.99
£11.69
I thought about being too small for so much, but that no one told you when you were big enough, how many centimetres on the doorpost that was, and I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit.
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