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Fortune of the Rougons
Paperback,
09/08/2012,
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The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Not only the inaugural novel, it is the series' founding text, establishing its genealogical basis. The family's greed and rapacity mirrors the diseased society in which it flourishes. This lively new translation is accompanied by introduction and notes.
Money
Paperback,
01/03/2014,
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Money centres on the figure of Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, and his unscrupulous money-making schemes. His story intertwines the worlds of politics, finance, and the press, and resonates disturbingly with our own times. This is the first new translation for more than a hundred years, and the first unabridged translation in English.
Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Paperback,
12/03/2015,
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In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. She raises questions concerning militarism, education, and social and gender inequality that are relevant to this day.
Sky
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
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Seek the scattered Storm-Opals of Sea, Sky and Land, before an enemy finds them and uses them to wield dark power... The trail of the Storm-Opals takes Mouse into a dangerous new world. With little brother Sparrow and friend Crow alongside her, she finds herself in Sky, where fortresses hide amongst the clouds.
Weight of Things
Paperback,
05/09/2017,
£9.99
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A slow-burning domestic nightmare, tinged with the traumas of war
From A to X: A Story in Letters
Paperback,
25/03/2009,
£13.99
£12.59
In a dusty, ramshackle town lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers.
Painter of Our Time
Paperback,
27/05/2010,
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Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why.
That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£15.00
£13.50
The 100 finest short stories ever written, collected in one gorgeous volume.
Beast
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
The offices of Britain's favourite tabloid The Daily Beast, are set on high terrorism alert in this compelling satirical debut.
Invisible Planets
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
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13 visions of the future from China, translated by Hugo award-winning translator and author Ken Liu.
False Lights
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
£14.99
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Imagine that Buonaparte, instead of Wellington, had won the Battle of Waterloo and that his ex-wife Empress Josephine is presiding over French-occupied England...
Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
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A new collection of meditations and stories from the Booker Prize-winning author, Ben Okri. Illustrated by Rosemary Clunie.
Secret Books
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
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Seeking adventure, a young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of 19th century Paris. Travelling undercover in the mountains of British India, he discovers a manuscript that transforms the world's understanding of the historical Jesus.
Impossible Fortress
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
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And Wheel of Fortune hostess Vanna White is on the cover of Playboy. Billy and his friends are desperate to get hold of a copy, but no shopkeeper is going to sell one to three fourteen-year-old gaming nerds. But as they set out on their mission to enter one impossible fortress, they have no idea what lies ahead .
Red-Haired Woman
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
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As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before -not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities.
Blind Owl and Other Stories
Paperback,
28/09/2017,
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Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story - an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader's subconscious.
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.
Sundays in August
Paperback,
01/09/2017,
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From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera
Such Fine Boys
Paperback,
01/09/2017,
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate
Homecoming
Paperback,
06/03/2014,
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But when tragedy strikes he is forced to return home -- and must come to terms with his past, in order to create a future.Filled with both the joys and losses of ordinary life, Homecoming is a big-hearted drama about how a family falls apart and comes back together again from a hugely talented new writer.
Best Of All Possible Worlds
Hardback,
31/01/2013,
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The Sadiri were once the galaxy's ruling elite, but now their home planet has been rendered unlivable and most of the population destroyed. The few groups living on other worlds are desperately short of Sadiri women, and their extinction looks imminent...
Ten Thousand Saints
Hardback,
29/03/2012,
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The New York scene of the late 1980s comes vividly to life in this powerful rollercoaster of a novel about three teenagers coming to terms with the death of a friend.
Seoul Survivors
Paperback,
28/02/2013,
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A meteor is about to wreak destruction on the earth, and with the end of the world imminent, there is only one safe place to be. In the mountains above Seoul, American-Korean bio-engineer Dr Kim Da Mi thinks she has found the perfect solution to save the human race...
Motherland
Hardback,
14/02/2013,
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A love-triangle plays out against the backdrop of war.
Man Without Breath
Hardback,
14/03/2013,
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Set in the darkest days of World War II, A Man Without Breath pitches Bernie Gunther into the most politically sensitive case of his career.
Cook
Hardback,
25/10/2012,
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At seventeen Zac is given a choice: either go to a young offenders' institute, or enrol in a rehabilitation scheme - a course that teaches juveniles how to cook. He makes his choice. He chooses to cook. He also chooses to succeed. Whatever it takes.
England's Lane
Hardback,
30/08/2012,
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Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each of them hiding their lies, coping in the only way they know how.
Fateless
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
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'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer' ObserverGyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business - his final act before being sent to a labour camp.
Liquidation
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
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Kingbitter, an editor at a publishing house on the verge of closure, believes himself to have been the closest friend of a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, B, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that predicts the behaviour of B's ex-wife, his mistress and Kingbitter himself.
Kaddish For An Unborn Child
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
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`A fine and powerful piece of work... Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times "No!" It is how a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child, and it is how he answered his wife years earlier when she told him that she wanted one.
Detective Story
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
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`A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power' Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution.
Door
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
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Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. But Emerence has secrets and vulnerabilities beneath her indomitable exterior which will test Magda's friendship and change the complexion of both their lives irreversibly.
Under the volcano
Paperback,
13/07/1990,
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It is the fiesta Day of the Dead in Mexico and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life, watched by his former wife and half-brother. Other books by the author include "Ultramarine".
And then there was no one
Paperback,
03/06/2010,
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The writer and professional controversialists Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on Slavorigin's head, almost none of the Festival's guests can be regarded as above suspicion.
History of Bees: The Number One International Bestseller
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
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In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees - and to their children and one another-against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis.
Books
Paperback,
14/11/2013,
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Two holidaymakers die of a mysterious condition while on holiday in Corfu, piquing neurologist Lauren Manning's interest. She investigates, finding help in the unlikely form of Richard Liggett. Together they discover the killer: best-selling author Tony Sayles and his insipid novels. Will they be able to stop him before millions die?
Mile End Murder: The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve
Hardback,
23/08/2017,
£20.00
£14.00
In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation, a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle.
Havergey
Hardback,
03/04/2017,
£12.00
£10.80
John Burnside's examination of place and utopia set on the remote island of Havergey.
Enigma
Paperback,
01/10/2009,
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Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare.
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