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Ubik (Dick Philip K.)(Paperback / softback)

A classic tale of artificial worlds by one of the great SF writers

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

The dreaded Great Aunt invites herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends arrive for the Summer. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses and reading poetry, while friends Dick and Dorothea become Picts, secret inhabitants of the country who must never be seen

Phantom - Goodking Terry

Les Vacances du Petit Nicolas - René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé

Focuses on the whimsical adventures and misadventures of little Nicolas on vacation

Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Demonstrates that theory of evolution by natural selection discovered by Charles Darwin - is only answer to biggest question of all: why do we

Ulysses (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a cast of supporting characters, the author pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes

Child of God (McCarthy Cormac)(Paperback / softback)

McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters' Village Voice

The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy

'There isn't anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature' New York Times

Satanic Verses (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India’s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices

Just Kids (Smith Patti)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe

L'etranger (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Quand la sonnerie a encore retenti, que la porte du box s'est ouverte, c'est le silence de la salle qui est monté vers moi, le silence, et cette singuliere sensation que j'ai eue lorsque j'ai constaté que le jeune journaliste avait détourné les yeux. Je n'ai pas regardé du côté de Marie. Je

Playbook - Suit Up. Score Chicks. Be Awesome (Stinson Barney)(Paperback / softback)

It. Is. On. The latest book from bestselling author of THE BRO CODE, Barney Stinson, THE PLAYBOOK is like Niel Strauss's THE GAME for Bros

God of Small Things (Roy Arundhati)(Paperback / softback)

More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy

I Am Legend (Matheson Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The SF classic that inspired the blockbuster vampire movie starring Will Smith

The Bro Code - Barney Stinson

As seen on the BBC2 show, How I Met Your Mother, The Bro Codeis the internal code of conduct for Bros - The Dangerous Book for Boys meetsThe Game

Chasm City (Reynolds Alastair)(Paperback / softback)

Come to Chasm City and embark on a mind-bending ride through the universe of Revelation SpaceTanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner's pursuit of Reivich takes him

Saturday (McEwan Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst thousands of

Family (Puzo Mario)(Paperback / softback)

Headed by Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, this tight-knit family is fighting to keep its iron grip on Italy - but theirs is a lethal game, and the cost of failure is surely death. Scheming and plotting for their own ends are his children: Giovanni, the much-favoured golden

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny

My Swordhand is Singing (Sedgwick Marcus)(Paperback / softback)

An original interpretation of the timelessly fascinating vampire myth, and a story of father and son, by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize and shortlisted for the Carnegie

Baudolino (Eco Umberto)(Paperback / softback)

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading

Atomised (Houellebecq Michel)(Paperback / softback)

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, and a man with no erotic life to speak of. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. This novel tells the stories of the two brothers

Most Beautiful Woman in Town (Bukowski Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of anecdotal short stories demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and his mastery of visceral language and the depiction of seamy underworlds. Focusing

Winner Take Nothing (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

Features hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: living on the raw edge, making love, and facing the inevitable reality of death. As an introduction to the author's work, or as an overview of the themes he developed in his novels, this work presents a