Bicycle Diaries (Byrne David)(Paperback / softback)

Bicycle Diaries (Byrne David)(Paperback / softback)

David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation since the 1980's. When he tours, Byrne travels with a folding bicycle, bringing it to cities like London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Manila, New York, Detroit and San

Snow - John Banville

A Certain Hunger - Summers Chelsea G.

'Irresistible.' Megan AbbottProvocative, glamorous and passionate, Dorothy Daniels has always followed where her insatiable appetite leads

Cursed (Gilded) - Marissa Meyer

Bestselling author Marissa Meyer concludes her young adult retelling of Rumpelstiltskin in this sequel!Serilda and Gild attempt to break the curses that tether their spirits to Adalheid's haunted castle before the Endless Moon, when the Erlking means to capture one of the seven gods and make a wish

The Premonition - Jošimoto Banana

'Yoshimoto's novels are like jewel boxes.' Vanity FairThe new novel from the bestselling author of the beloved classic, Kitchen.I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide ... It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.Yayoi lives with

Dressmaker (Ham Rosalie)(Paperback / softback)

Tilly Dunnage left her hometown of Dungatar in rural Australia under a black cloud of accusation. Years later Tilly, now a couturier for the Paris fashion houses, returns home to make amends with her mentally unstable mother. Mid-century Dungatar is a small town, and small towns have long memories

Remains of the Day (Ishiguro Kazuo)(Paperback / softback)

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE BY THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING AUTHORONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past

Immortality (Kundera Milan)(Paperback / softback)

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so. 'It will make you cleverer, maybe even

Birthday Party (Pinter Harold)(Paperback / softback)

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world

Unconsoled (Ishiguro Kazuo)(Paperback / softback)

'Almost certainly a masterpiece.' (Anita Brookner). Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream

Enigma Variations (Aciman Andre)(Paperback / softback)

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense

Kitchen (Yoshimoto Banana)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful new edition to celebrate the thirty year anniversary of the original English publication of Kitchen. Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest

Tale of Truthwater Lake - Emma Caroll

Emma Carroll's books have sold over half a million copies! The future has a lot to learn from the past in this time-travelling adventure that explores the before and after of global warming. On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house . . . It's beautiful here, and eerie, a lost

Complete Poems (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback / softback)

The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest

Ignorance (Kundera Milan)(Paperback / softback)

A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history?

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Amnesia (Carey Peter)(Paperback / softback)

When Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australias prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: the system is run by an American corporation, so some 5,000 US prisons are also infected. Doors spring open. Both

Farewell Waltz (Kundera Milan)(Paperback / softback)

Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father.And so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Klima's beautiful,

Felix Ever After (Callender Kacen)(Paperback / softback)

From award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never been in love - and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it's

Strangeness in My Mind (Pamuk Orhan)(Paperback / softback)

From one of our greatest, a panoramic new novel, his first sinceMuseum of Innocence, bringing us into Istanbul's underground through the eyes of a struggling street vendor. It is the 1990s in Istanbul, and although there were once thousands of boza vendors walking the frozen streets of the city,

Colossus (Plath Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of

Certain Justice (James P. D.)(Paperback / softback)

Now a major Channel 5 series'The Queen of Crime.' New York TimesVenetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four

It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories (Plath Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

A timeless collection of stories for younger children.In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect

Buried Giant (Ishiguro Kazuo)(Paperback / softback)

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple,