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Science : Vintage Minis - Ian McEwan

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

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Dreams - Vintage Minis (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback / softback)

Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the recesses of our minds, and awakens the hidden meanings behind our most typical and surprising night-time fantasies. From dreams of violence and

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Freedom - Vintage Minis (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to

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War : Vintage Minis - Sebastian Faulks

A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud, fighting for his life and the life of his men. A young man walks across Waterloo Bridge, explosives in his rucksack, heart pounding. In this powerfully moving book, Faulks shows us the true face

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Austerity - Vintage Minis (Varoufakis Yanis)(Paperback / softback)

How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with

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Rave - Vintage Minis (Welsh Irvine)(Paperback / softback)

Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and

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Quiet American (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Pyle is a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of

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Survivor (Palahniuk Chuck)(Paperback / softback)

Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane's black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult and hired out as a domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly

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Psychedelics - Vintage Minis (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was

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Marriage : Vintage Minis - Jane Austenová

Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again. Here are stolen glances and nervous advances, meddling parents and self-important cousins, society whisperings and the fluttering

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Religion : Vintage Minis - Karen Armstrongová

Because `God' is infinite, nobody can have the last word.' What is this thing, religion, which has supposedly been the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? What is `God' and do we need `Him' in our modern world? Karen Armstrong, bestselling author and one of the world's leading writers on

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Choke (Palahniuk Chuck)(Paperback / softback)

Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy

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Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak Boris)(Paperback / softback)

Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself embroiled in a battle between the Whites and the

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Money - Vintage Minis (Harari Yuval Noah)(Paperback / softback)

How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on a journey from the very first coins through to 21st century

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Ghosts (James M. R.)(Mass Market Paperbound)

A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A bed that hasn't been slept in is crumpled and distressed come the morning. A skeletal figure

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Injustice - Vintage Minis (Wright Richard)(Paperback / softback)

How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago,

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Little Women - Louisa May Alcottová

'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another' Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with

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Bat - Harry Hole 1 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. He's not supposed to get too involved. When the team unearths a string of unsolved

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Hear the Wind Sing (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J's Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and

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The Railway Children (Nesbit Edith)(Paperback)

''Stand firm'' said Peter, 'and wave like mad!'' They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter must move to a small cottage in the countryside with Mother. It is a bitter blow to leave their London

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Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degredation. From a small fishing

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The Man Who Planted Trees

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. 'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier

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Elephant (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing

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Numero Zero (Eco Umberto)(Paperback)

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of II Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a

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The Death of Jesus - John Maxwell Coetzee

The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', twice winner of the Booker Prize 'The Death of Jesus is full of truth' -- David Sexton, Book of the Week, Evening Standard In The Childhood of Jesus, Simon found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a

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Brave New World (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback)

Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.-'After Ford'-in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that

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The Road - Cormac McCarthy

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their

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Knife (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

A JAW-DROPPING TWIST-PACKED HARRY HOLE THRILLER THAT WILL KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT'Nesbo is one of the best thriller writers on the planet' Daily ExpressHARRY HOLE IS ABOUT TO FACE HIS DARKEST CASE YET.Harry is in a bad place: Rakel has left him, he's working cold cases and notorious murderer Svein

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Cockroaches - Jo Nesbø

Harry is on a special mission. Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. It's clear that the Ambassador's family are hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's

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Fallout (Jones Sadie)(Paperback / softback)

London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It seems a world away from the provincial town he has fled along with his own troubled past, and his new life is unrecognisable - one of friendships forged in pubs, candlelit power cuts, and smoky late-night parties

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Phantom - Harry Hole 9 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

The murder has been solved. But has justice been done? Harry Hole is back in Oslo. He's been away for some time, but his ghosts have a way of catching up with him. The case that brings him back is already closed. There is no room for doubt: the young junkie was shot dead by a fellow addict. The

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Thirst - Harry Hole 11 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering Sunday Times number one bestseller!36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDETHERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETSA woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. | AND HE’S

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Snowman - Harry Hole 7 (Bartlett Don)(Paperback)

The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is

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Animal Farm (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take

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Coot Club (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to sail. They couldn't hope for a better teacher than Tom Dudgeon. But Tom is in a spot of trouble. After seeing the beastly Margoletta moored clean across the nests of his beloved coots, Tom set the motorcruiser

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The Turn of the Key - Ruth Ware

When Rowan stumbles across the advert, it seems like too good an opportunity to miss: a live-in nanny position, with a very generous salary. And when she arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten by the luxurious 'smart' home fitted out with all modern conveniences by a picture-perfect

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Merivel - A Man of His Time (Tremain Rose)(Paperback / softback)

The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French court in search of a fresh start. But royal life at the Palace of Versailles - leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with the seductive Madame de

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Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is

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Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.'Featuring an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself turned into a giant cockroach, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, is brought together

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Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to

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Only Story (Barnes Julian)(Paperback)

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. | First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies

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Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary establishment.This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack

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Devil's Star - Harry Hole 5 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

THE MARK OF THE DEVIL, THE SIGN OF A KILLER... A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler, and initially wants no part in it

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Brave New World (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs.You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.Discover the brave new world of

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The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their

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Ghost Stories: Selected and Introduced by Mark Gatiss (Benson E. F.)(Paperback)

Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones) selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Benson.There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy Tube platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little

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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Hrabal Bohumil)(Paperback / softback)

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an

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Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN DUNMORE As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, 36-year-old woman and three centuries will

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The Power of the Powerless - Václav Havel

Vaclav Havel's remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder | Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer's unerring ideology? Or a symbol of

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After Dark (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned

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Trial (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an

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Midwinter Break (MacLaverty Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year .Winner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year. Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with

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Children Act (McEwan Ian)(Paperback)

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her

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So Much Life Left Over (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day. However, even in the lush plantation hills it is hard for them to

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Redeemer - Harry Hole 6 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

Over 28 Millions Books sold Worldwide‘This book had my pulse in the red zone from start to finish' Michael Connelly It is a freezing December night and Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. Detective

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Snowman - Harry Hole 7 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Fassbender. OVER 30 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE. THE FIRST SNOW WILL COME. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman

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My Policeman - Bethan Roberts

This love is all-consumingIt is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both.A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom

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What July Knew - Emily Koch

July knows 18 things about her mother. But not the truth.Summer, 1995. On her tenth birthday, July's teacher sets the class a project to find out about a relation they don't know. It's easy for July to choose her subject. She doesn't remember her mother, who died when she was small, and her father

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Love (Doyle Roddy)(Paperback / softback)

One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be. As two pints

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My Policeman - Soon to be a film starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin (Roberts Bethan)(Paperback / softback)

An exquisitely told tragic tale of thwarted love, My Policeman is soon to be adapted into film by Amazon Prime starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin.It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined

230 Kč

Woman in Cabin 10 (Ware Ruth)(Paperback / softback)

This was meant to be the perfect trip. The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship. A chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse, and to work out what she wants from her relationship. Except

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Antic Hay (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of a sedentary life, he decides the time has come to leave his position as housemaster in a boys' public school and seek his fortune in the metropolis

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Awkward Age (Segal Francesca)(Paperback / softback)

What does it take to be a family?Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything she never knew she wanted. It's perfect but for two things: their children.Julia's beloved daughter Gwen loathes James and James's son Nathan takes pleasure in antagonising his

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1984 (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... • Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's

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Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity.America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think

232 Kč

White Chrysanthemum - Mary Lynn Bracht

'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from free diving off the southernmost tip of Korea. One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier

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Quicksand (Tanizaki Junichiro)(Paperback / softback)

Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image. it is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband. At is centre - seductive, manipulating,

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Macbeth (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They're all within reach. But a man like him won't get to

232 Kč

The Hollow Man - Oliver Harris

Detective Nick Belsey is broke. Now it looks like he's out of a job - something happened last night, something with the boss' wife... At dawn, on what should be the last day of Belsey's career, Hampstead CID is ghostly quiet. Belsey checks the overnight files. There's a missing-person report. But

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Lessons - Ian McEwan

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will

232 Kč

The Andalucian Friend - The First Book in the Brinkmann Trilogy (Brinkman Trilogy 1) - Alexander Söderberg

When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, she knows everything that she needs to: he's handsome, he's charming and he makes her happy. But what she doesn't know is that Hector has some nasty friends, some even nastier enemies, and an unscrupulous police

232 Kč

The House Of Fame - Oliver Harris

Amber Knight is London's hottest ticket - pop star, film star, front-page, gossip. Nick Belsey is less celebrated. He can't shake his habit of getting into serious trouble. His career at Hampstead CID is coming to a dishonourable end. He is currently of no fixed address

232 Kč

Deep Shelter - Oliver Harris

London is steaming under a summer of filthy heat and sudden storms - and Detective Nick Belsey, of Hampstead CID, is trying to stay out of trouble. But then somebody sets him a riddle. How does a man walk into a dead-end alley and never come out? How does he disappear?

232 Kč

Six Minutes in May - How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister (Shakespeare Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** `A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us

233 Kč

Hunted (Dahl Arne)(Paperback / softback)

It starts when Desire Rosenkvist of Stockholm Police receives a letter. Two things are immediately clear: the letter she holds in her hands was written in a state of utter desperation and paranoia. And it contains details of one of her old murder cases, which only the murderer could know.Desire

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Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (Oz Amos)(Paperback / softback)

In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One

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Picts and the Martyrs - or Not Welcome At All (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons' dreadful Great Aunt invites herself to stay too, the summer is threatened with dullness. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what anyone had in mind. To save the Ds

234 Kč

I Married a Communist (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral.Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star –

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Cider With Rosie (Lee Laurie)(Paperback / softback)

Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real

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Kingdom - The new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Harry Hole series (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

Jo Nesbo, author of the number one bestselling Harry Hole series, is back with a tense and atmospheric thriller about two brothers bound together by dark secrets. When Roy and Carl's parents die suddenly, sixteen-year-old Roy is left as protector to his impulsive younger brother. But when Carl

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Cathedral (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the

235 Kč

Knock Knock - Anders Roslund

Set over three explosive days, this is compulsive, heart-pounding storytelling that will keep you on the edge of your seat. He thought she was safe. Then the past came knocking. Seventeen years ago, Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime. A family had been murdered, with

235 Kč

Ministry of Fear (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

For Arthur Rowe, the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers

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Power of the Dog - SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH (Savage Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Thomas Savage's dark poetic writing about bachelor brothers in a small town in early 20th century American will hook you in. Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is

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Prague Orgy (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalised oppression,

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Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'. Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent

237 Kč

Dr Fischer of Geneva (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties - his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations - Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless greed of the rich. Black comedy and painful satire combine in a

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J: A Novel (Jacobson Howard)(Paperback / softback)

The brilliant new novel from the Booker prize-winning author. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have

2od 238 Kč

Dunbar (St. Aubyn Edward)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict CumberbatchHenry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters,

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Police - The tenth book in the Harry Hole series from the phenomenal Sunday Times bestselling author of The Kingdom (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

The police urgently need Harry Hole.A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical.But this time, Harry can't help anyone.For years, detective Harry Hole

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Trainspotting (Welsh Irvine)(Paperback / softback)

An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wide-boys and psychos who ride in the down escalator of opportunity in the nation's capital

239 Kč

Elizabeth Costello (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she

2od 239 Kč

The Jealousy Man - Jo Nesbø

Murder. Assassination. Revenge. Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime. Meet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a hired assassin facing his greatest adversary; and two passengers meeting by chance on a plane, spelling romance or

240 Kč

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak Boris)(Paperback / softback)

Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara

240 Kč

Damned (Palahniuk Chuck)(Paperback / softback)

'Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison' Meet Madison, whip-tongued daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, abandoned at a Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off adopting more orphans. Madison dies of a marijuana overdose and awakes to find herself in Hell,

2od 240 Kč

Leopard - Harry Hole 8 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood. A third woman is hanged from a diving board.You have allowed this killing to go on.The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of

2od 241 Kč

Snow Country - Sebastian Faulks

The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers.1927: For

241 Kč

Slow Man (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common:

241 Kč

The Promise - Damon Galgut

Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis. On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole

2od 241 Kč

Conviction - A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick (Mina Denise)(Paperback / softback)

It's just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him.With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Anna distracts herself with someone else's story: a true-crime podcast. That is until she recognises the name of one

241 Kč

Our Man In Havana (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true

2od 241 Kč

Shadow of the Silk Road - (Vintage Voyages) (Thubron Colin)(Paperback / softback)

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and

241 Kč

One by One - Ruth Ware

Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all

2od 241 Kč

Testaments - The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne Enright The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the

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Slaughterhouse 5 - The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.'An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Book Review Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower

241 Kč

Bullet Train - Kotaro Isaka

Five killers. One train journey. But who will survive? The original and propulsive thriller from a massive Japanese bestseller.Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the

2od 241 Kč

Christmas Mystery 2 : The perfect murder mystery for Christmas 2021 - Moncrieff Ada

Murder stalks a touring stage production of A Christmas Carol in this 1930s-set festive mystery. Murder stalks a touring stage production of A Christmas Carol in this 1930s-set festive mystery. December 1935. Director Monty Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on its

2od 241 Kč

Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means `of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter

2od 241 Kč

Travels With My Aunt - (Vintage Voyages) (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon

241 Kč

The Power of the Dog - Thomas Savage

Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the new Jane Campion film. Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George

2od 241 Kč

Redhead by the Side of the Road - From the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread (Tyler Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly. He measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady

2od 241 Kč

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Vuong Ocean)(Paperback / softback)

Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling.'A marvel' Marlon JamesThis is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late

2od 241 Kč

Gustav Sonata (Tremain Rose)(Paperback / softback)

The Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerShortlisted for the Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionWhat is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's

2od 241 Kč

Moveable Feast (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda

2od 241 Kč

Home (Morrison Toni)(Paperback / softback)

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. As Frank

2od 243 Kč

Narrow Road to the Deep North (Flanagan Richard)(Paperback / softback)

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his

2od 244 Kč

On Chesil Beach (McEwan Ian)(Paperback / softback)

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the

2od 245 Kč

Nightbitch: Stylist´s summer cult breakout - Rachel Yoder

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else...At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more

2od 245 Kč

American Pastoral - The renowned Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker,

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Science : Vintage Minis - Ian McEwan

Dreams - Vintage Minis (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback / softback)

Freedom - Vintage Minis (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

War : Vintage Minis - Sebastian Faulks

Austerity - Vintage Minis (Varoufakis Yanis)(Paperback / softback)

Rave - Vintage Minis (Welsh Irvine)(Paperback / softback)

Quiet American (Greene Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Survivor (Palahniuk Chuck)(Paperback / softback)

Psychedelics - Vintage Minis (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Marriage : Vintage Minis - Jane Austenová

Religion : Vintage Minis - Karen Armstrongová

Choke (Palahniuk Chuck)(Paperback / softback)

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak Boris)(Paperback / softback)

Money - Vintage Minis (Harari Yuval Noah)(Paperback / softback)

Ghosts (James M. R.)(Mass Market Paperbound)

Injustice - Vintage Minis (Wright Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Little Women - Louisa May Alcottová

Bat - Harry Hole 1 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

Hear the Wind Sing (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

The Railway Children (Nesbit Edith)(Paperback)

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

The Man Who Planted Trees

Elephant (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Numero Zero (Eco Umberto)(Paperback)

The Death of Jesus - John Maxwell Coetzee

Brave New World (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback)

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Knife (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

Cockroaches - Jo Nesbø

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

Fallout (Jones Sadie)(Paperback / softback)

Phantom - Harry Hole 9 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

Thirst - Harry Hole 11 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

Snowman - Harry Hole 7 (Bartlett Don)(Paperback)

Animal Farm (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Coot Club (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The Turn of the Key - Ruth Ware

Merivel - A Man of His Time (Tremain Rose)(Paperback / softback)

Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

Only Story (Barnes Julian)(Paperback)

Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

Devil's Star - Harry Hole 5 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

Brave New World (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Ghost Stories: Selected and Introduced by Mark Gatiss (Benson E. F.)(Paperback)

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Hrabal Bohumil)(Paperback / softback)

Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

The Power of the Powerless - Václav Havel

After Dark (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

Trial (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Midwinter Break (MacLaverty Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

Children Act (McEwan Ian)(Paperback)

So Much Life Left Over (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Redeemer - Harry Hole 6 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

Snowman - Harry Hole 7 (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback / softback)

My Policeman - Bethan Roberts

What July Knew - Emily Koch

Love (Doyle Roddy)(Paperback / softback)

My Policeman - Soon to be a film starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin (Roberts Bethan)(Paperback / softback)

Woman in Cabin 10 (Ware Ruth)(Paperback / softback)

Antic Hay (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Awkward Age (Segal Francesca)(Paperback / softback)

1984 (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

White Chrysanthemum - Mary Lynn Bracht

Quicksand (Tanizaki Junichiro)(Paperback / softback)

Macbeth (Nesbo Jo)(Paperback)

The Hollow Man - Oliver Harris

Lessons - Ian McEwan

The Andalucian Friend - The First Book in the Brinkmann Trilogy (Brinkman Trilogy 1) - Alexander Söderberg

The House Of Fame - Oliver Harris

Deep Shelter - Oliver Harris

Six Minutes in May - How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister (Shakespeare Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Hunted (Dahl Arne)(Paperback / softback)

Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (Oz Amos)(Paperback / softback)

Picts and the Martyrs - or Not Welcome At All (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

I Married a Communist (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)