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Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder introduce an essential collection of essays arguing how and why we need to fight for Black…

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A sensational classic: this chilling tale of Siberian espionage is 'the best thriller I've ever read' (Philip Pullman)…

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has…

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The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns…

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'Precise and beautifully controlled fictions but with strange, wild energies pulsing along just beneath the surface. A…

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The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt - a compulsive, riveting and bravely observed exploration of…

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Aurelio Zen was dead to the world. Under the next umbrella, a few desirable metres closer to the sea, Massimo Rutelli was…

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His struggle to resolve this crisis, without fracturing his marriage or compromising his comfortable way of life, is…

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WINNER OF THE 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Award2019 Walter Scott…

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Features eleven stories that explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache, the tenderness and the joy,…

\n\'The kind of character comedy.\' Good Housekeeping\'A lynchpin of British comedy.\' Alan MooreThe nation\'s favourite…

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Set in the world of museums and galleries in London, The Murder Room is the twelfth Adam Dalgliesh mystery and a brilliant…

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In this series, contemporary poets select and introduce a poet of the past who they have particularly admired. By their…

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A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about…

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West Virginia: A church congregation vanishes in mysterious circumstances, only to be found dead some miles away. Maybe now,…

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But as Tartarsky speeds through a surreal world of PR mercenaries, back-door deals and Zen Buddhism, he begins to suspect…

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Set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling…

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One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in…

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Not One of These People, a co-production between the Royal Court Theatre, Carte blanche, and the Carrefour international de…

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One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes…

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From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes,…

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In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission -…

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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Since the publication of his poems in 1918 he…

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Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a…

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The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last…

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The epic imaginative enterprise [is] as formidable a feat as the year-long odyssey it charts.' Sunday Times'Golding writes…

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One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind... It is the eve…

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The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving…

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Autumn 2004In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew. Spring 2016A year after…

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A series featuring various poets selecting and introducing poets of the past. It, by choice of poems and the personal and…

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Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the…

The short stories in this collection are spread over landscapes ranging from northern California and the urban Southwest to…

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Offers a collection of lyrics and descriptive poems.…

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For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window, there have…

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At the centre of Electric Brae is the crumbling sea-stack of the Old Man of Hoy and the consuming relationship between a…

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Within three years, Curran will be a judge, his nineteen year old daughter dead, at the hands of a still unknown murderer,…

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A provocative collection of short stories charting the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late…

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A stand-alone thriller from P. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only…

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It is summer in the Appalachian mountains. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive…

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Pig Tales is a brilliant satirical novel about a stunning young woman working in a beauty 'massage' parlour. she gets the…

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But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for…

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The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of…

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and a champion of outsiders, whether single women, the elderly or wartime refugees. Witty and subversive, her stories meld…

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Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. For most of his working…

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Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars. In this world gone mad,…

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One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael,…