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Testimony
Hardback,
27/07/2017,
£18.99
£17.09
Four hundred dead. Only one witness. Scott Turow is back tackling his biggest case yet in The Hague . . .
Too Like the Lightning
Hardback,
13/07/2017,
£18.99
£17.09
The year is 2454: Earth's hard-won utopian society is threatened by a young boy with apparently god-like powers.
Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Paperback,
01/12/2016,
£12.99
£11.69
First published in 1941 and set aginst the rich canvas of New England history, this is American author H. P. Lovecraft's exploration of a mind destroyed by an obsession with an ancestor, a reputed necromancer.
My Son, My Son
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
First published in 1938, MY SON, MY SON is bestselling British author Howard Spring's multigenerational portrait of a relationship between father and son.
Heaven's My Destination
Paperback,
08/09/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
First published in 1935, HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION is American author and dramatist Thornton Wilder's masterful portrayal of the power of an outsider's viewpoint.
Authentic Death of Hendry Jones
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
A stark and violent exploration of an American myth, this is a novel about the doomed gunslinger Billy the Kid.
History of a Town
Paperback,
08/09/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
One of the major satirical novels of modern Russia, Saltykov-Schedrin's hilarious chronicle is a harch criticism of Tsarist Russia, strangely pertinent to today.
Man on a Donkey
Paperback,
01/12/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
An enthralling account of Henry VIII's controversial dissolution of the monasteries.
Council of Egypt
Paperback,
01/12/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
A tale of power, corruption and forgery set in a Sicily ripe for reform.
Jest of God
Paperback,
09/03/2017,
£10.00
£9.00
A duty-ridden woman dreams of breaking free from her small-town chains.
Paradise Valley
Hardback,
25/07/2017,
£18.99
£17.09
Investigator Cassie Dewell's three-year hunt for the serial killer known as 'The Lizard King' comes to a climax.
Company K
Paperback,
09/03/2017,
£10.00
£9.00
An unflinching portrait of a US Marine company in WWI, written by a decorated army hero.
Now in November
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
First published in 1934, NOW IN NOVEMBER is American author Josephine W. Johnson's lyrical and an indelible portrait of the Depression and Dust Bowl years in America.
Lost Europeans
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
First published in 1960, THE LOST EUROPEANS is British author Emanuel Litvinoff's story of an inverse pilgrimage: that of a Jewish man to a resurgent, post-war Berlin.
Bosnian Chronicle
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
First published in 1945, this is Bosnian author Ivo Andric's saga of turbulent imperial forces played out through the fates of two men in a remote outpost of the Ottoman Empire.
Man Who Loved Children
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
Australian novelist Christina Stead's 1940 novel about the dysfunctional Pollitt family.
Delta Wedding
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
First published in 1946, DELTA WEDDING is legendary American author Eudora Welty's portrait of family life in the American South during the 1920s.
Day of Judgment
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
Around the turn of the twentieth century, in the isolated Sardinian town of Nuoro, the aristocratic notary Don Sebastiano Sanna reflects on his life, his family's history and the fortunes of this provincial backwater where he has lived out his days.
Nebuly Coat
Paperback,
01/12/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
A young architect is sent to a remote town to supervise the restoration of its Minster.
Hungry Grass
Paperback,
08/09/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
A quiet, engaging novel about the death of a priest in 1950s Ireland and a world on the cusp of change.
Stone Angel
Paperback,
08/09/2016,
£10.00
£9.00
As she approaches her death, Hagar Shipley - an irascible, independent nonagenarian - rages against the dying of the light.
Ice Saints
Paperback,
04/05/2017,
£10.00
£9.00
An award-winning novel depicting life in Poland behind the Iron Curtain.
South Wind
Paperback,
09/03/2017,
£12.00
£10.80
An Anglican bishop, on recuperative leave from his African diocese, alights at the island of Nepthene for a short stay on passage to England, and is soon caught in the midst of a wild and exuberant cast of fellow visitors and residents.
Pachinko
Paperback,
03/08/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
Letty Fox: Her Luck
Paperback,
04/05/2017,
£14.00
£12.60
Letty Fox talks us through her search for marital bliss in 1930s New York and London.
Langrishe, Go Down
Paperback,
13/07/2017,
£10.00
£9.00
Set against the backdrop of 1930s Europe, Higgin's classic novel depicts the demise of the old order of power in Ireland.
Free Food for Millionaires
Paperback,
01/08/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
A young woman is torn between her Korean heritage and American upbringing. Min Jin Lee's acclaimed debut novel.
Bogmail
Paperback,
10/08/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
A slice of crazed, rural, Irish gothic: the tale of murder in a small Irish village in Donegal, Bogmail is a classic of modern Irish literature.
Fire In The Head
Paperback,
24/09/2010,
£11.00
£9.90
Set in Glasgow and a remote "hippy" community on the west coast of Scotland, this is a story of love, rivalries, ecological politics, murder, suicide, high values and low commedy. The hapless and slightly pompous protagonist, Jonathan Armour does not always understand the story he is telling, but he tells it beautifully.
Under a Pole Star
Paperback,
10/08/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
A panoramic historical epic and an unforgettable love story from the author of the Costa-winning The Tenderness of Wolves, for fans of Sarah Perry, Jessie Burton and Donna Tartt
Dragonwriter
Paperback,
22/08/2013,
£10.99
£9.89
Science fiction Grand Master Anne McCaffrey and her work, particularly her Dragonriders of Pern series, are beloved by generations of readers. This title pays tribute to science fiction great Anne McCaffrey's life, legacy, and work from the writers who knew her best.
Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Paperback,
07/06/2010,
£8.99
£4.50
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered.
Pigeon English
Paperback,
05/01/2012,
£8.99
£8.09
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011 Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent
In Darkness
Paperback,
03/01/2013,
£7.99
£7.19
An audacious and astounding novel that grips the heart and the imagination
Kill Me Twice
Paperback,
24/08/2017,
£7.99
£4.00
'Booker's fast paced, twisting thrillers are a must-read for anyone who loves a good page turner' Simon Kernick'A must-read' Mark BillinghamKarl Savage is dead.
Fisher King
Paperback,
12/03/2015,
£8.99
£8.09
Celebrated but crippled photographer, Saul Henchman sets out to cruise the British Isles in search of peace and fulfilment. Beautiful dancer, Barberina Rookwood gives up her career to be with him.
All The Wicked Girls
Paperback,
24/08/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
'Raine sometimes complains that nothing exciting is ever gonna happen in Grace again. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine.
Lady and the Unicorn
Paperback,
01/12/2006,
£8.99
£8.09
From the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring comes a historical tale of love, sex and revenge.
Burning Bright
Paperback,
04/02/2008,
£8.99
£8.09
Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: a sparkling historical drama from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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