\'So funny - Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.\' STEPHEN MERCHANT\'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.\' TIM KEY\'Absolutely…

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It is 1939. The world stands on the brink of Armageddon. In the Soviet Union, years of revolution, fear and persecution have…

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Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - but when…

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The Iron Wolf, the Iron WolfStands on the world with jagged fur. The rusty Moon rolls through the sky. The iron river cannot…

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In celebration of our 90th birthday, five beautiful hardback editions of some of Ted Hughes's most popular nature poems - to…

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My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem of a memoir tells the charming tale of how…

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For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems…

\nBut how we misread them, bright drop after bright drop in the sea of night. Based on the letters of Mary Queen of Scots,…

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The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three…

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Supper for one? Whether you're a career girl, eccentric bedsitter or wild bachelor, this witty gem is the essential guide to…

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In celebration of our 90th birthday, five beautiful hardback editions of some of Ted Hughes's most popular nature poems - to…

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Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her…

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Some poems will be more of a challenge than others, but all will be treasured once they have become part of the memory bank.…

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Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the…

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A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family…

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Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious,…

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It won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture of 1977.…

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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy…

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Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other…

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Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for…

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Presents an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. This book…

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A novel that follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is…

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'America's first lady of darkness and mirth.' Guardian'I'd rather spend time with her than anyone else on Earth.' Nicole…

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

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Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a…

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Murphy's friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete. The combination of particularity and…

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sets out to decode the world of finance for all of us, explaining everything from high-frequency trading and the World Bank…

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A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a…

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Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now…

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Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of the occult. Though his chief…

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Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the…

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE'The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin…

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The judges of the 2025 Forward Prizes for Poetry read hundreds of recent books and individual poems before arriving at this…

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE'Dazzling . But Celál, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he…

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWinner of the Independent Award for Foreign Fiction'Turkey's foremost novelist .…

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'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of…

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At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes…

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LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know…

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Winner of the Kiriyama Prize and the Encore Award, and shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize. In an unnamed English town, Jugnu…

The play premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in February 2018 to coincide with the seventieth anniversaries of both…

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I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. Amongst the cub…

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\nA profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland\'s greatest playwrights.\n…

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Tara Selter is no longer alone. Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the…

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A classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.…

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What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great…

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Human relations are fleeting and vulnerable, appearing in the impression of a wedding or the recurring moments captured…

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION\'A triumph.\' Deborah…

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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…