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In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer…

Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the…

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• Detektivka

Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2017Josephine Tey is in Cambridge, a town gripped by fear and…

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May, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king. Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio…

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Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in…

Following his hugely acclaimed TV come-back Comedy Vehicle, Lee finds himself in search of ideas for a new Edinburgh show.…

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which…

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The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which…

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When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. In this…

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In a world where every thought is monitored and every word scrutinised, freedom remains a whisper. A striking addition to…

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Originally published in this translation in 1966, a collection of texts on prayer, drawn from Greek and Russian Orthodox…

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\nI felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding…

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\nThe diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful…

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A gripping, heart-wrenching, missing-person story, Happiness Falls is about family, the pursuit of happiness and how far we…

'A perfect Christmas crime story.' Elly Griffiths A Christmas murder mystery featuring the real-life couple who invented…

\nTwo rival private investigators - with an undeniable attraction - must work together to solve a missing persons case in…

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'A top-notch holiday read.' GUARDIAN'Effortlessly absorbing.' TANA FRENCH'A page-turner.' KATE ATKINSON'Playful and witty…

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THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLER'Intermezzo is perfect ... Is there a better novelist at work right now?' Observer'Her most mature…

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'Absolute, utter perfection' Chloe Liese, bestselling author of Only and Forever'Real and raw...swoon-worthy romance.' Bal…

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A lost dystopian classic, set in a future without death.You don't own yourself any longer. Society owns you. Had it not been…

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'The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story.' Or was it 'The only duty of a storyteller is to tell a story'?A writer…

Paul Auster's unsettling tale of chance and gambling from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a…

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Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love,…

of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...'To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a…

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of…

"The Lacuna" is the heartbreaking story of a man's search for safety of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the…

Set before the start of the First World War, this fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small…

From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends…

Using hundreds of drawings, this book distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book…

Kniha 9780571238330 Animator's Survival Kit Richard E. Williams…

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Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern…

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'Brilliant.' The Times'One of Upson's most evocative novels.' GuardianSeptember 1939: The worries of war follow Josephine…

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\nThe brilliantly twisty and intelligent thriller from Peter Swanson.\n…

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No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate…

\nsomewhere they never should\'ve been - where the people aren\'t so friendly, and even less forgiving. \'A funny and…

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Booker Prize winner Thomas Keneally transports us into the life of John Mitchel, one of the most controversial figures of…

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Eighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people. She spends her days tucked away in the forge, safe from society and the…

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A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH'Vivid, visceral and utterly immersive. Extraordinary' LIZ HYDER author…

Dream-life and class politics, mystery and music, sex and drink, all play an essential part in this collection of poetry.…

Acclaimed for its penetration, balance and insight, Modern Greece tells the story of Greece and the Greek people from the…

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When McKenna Jordan, a magazine journalist investigating the story of the heroic and unidentified woman, finds the video…

Tragedy at Law follows a rather self-important High Court judge, Mr Justice Barber, as he moves from town to town presiding…

A young airman is found brutally murdered near an Air Force base in the northern desert. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma…

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A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms…

In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. As the investigation…

An evocative account of a childhood summer spent beside the sea in Norfolk by brother and sister, Eustace and Hilda.…

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Picked for BBC Radio 2's Book ClubEveryone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish,…

\nThis is a story about an eleven-year-old boy making his way through school, trying to earn pocket money, stay out of…