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By: Dilly Court

ISBN: 9781784752552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Their feckless mother, Edith, has fallen into the clutches of unscrupulous pimp, Todd Hardiman, whose evil presence threatens their daily existence.

Befriended by Ned Hawkes and his kindly mother, Nell, Clemency struggles to escape from life in the slums of Stew Lane.


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By: Ian McEwan

ISBN: 9781529112924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis.


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By: Hannah Persaud

ISBN: 9781916360242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2021
Publisher: Muswell Press
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A thrilling masterpiece of sexual obsession and marital infidelity. This wonderfully compelling novel looks unflinchingly at the power of sexual attraction and what can happen when people give into their desires. A page-turning portrait of a contemporary marriage where all is not quite as perfect as it seems.


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By: Hannah Persaud

ISBN: 9781999313531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Muswell Press
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This is a wonderfully compelling novel which looks unflinchingly at the power of sexual attraction and what can happen when people give into their desires. A page-turning portrait of a contemporary marriage where all is not quite as perfect as it seems.


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By: Yasmin Zaher

ISBN: 9781804441374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
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Abold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unravelling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind.


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By: John Ironmonger

ISBN: 9781780220840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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For fans of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Mark Watson and Mark Haddon, here is a cleverly written mystery about fate, circumstance, destiny and coincidence from COSTA AWARD-shortlisted author, John Ironmonger. This quirky read is hard to put down and spans philosophy, conflict, relationships and romance.


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By: Sam Leith

ISBN: 9781408821725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A wonderfully clever and unique debut

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction


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By: Jessica Sorensen

ISBN: 9780751552607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The start of a breathtaking series from self-publishing New York Times bestselling sensation Jessica Sorensen


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By: Leo Sullivan

ISBN: 9781496726131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
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By: Louis L'Amour

ISBN: 9780553392265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2015
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1, features thirty-five action-packed Frontier Stories.


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By: Louis L'Amour

ISBN: 9780804179737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Louis L'Amour

ISBN: 9780804179768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2016
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.


(Hardback)

By: Roberto Bolao

ISBN: 9781784879488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: William Trevor

ISBN: 9780140957860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author is described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in English language' by "New Yorker" and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into human heart. This title offers a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting.


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By: Diane Williams

ISBN: 9781616959852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2019
Publisher: Soho Press Inc
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An extensive compendium of Diane Williams' works.


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By: Grace Paley

ISBN: 9781860495212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1999
UK Publication Date: 5th August 1999
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Regarded as one of the finest short story writers in America - this volume presents her collected works 'A voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute' - SUSAN SONTAG


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By: Richard Yates

ISBN: 9780099518549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.


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By: John Mortimer

ISBN: 9780141198293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome.


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By: Shirley Hazzard

ISBN: 9780349012957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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'Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in the English today' (Michael Cunningham).

Now at last comes the first complete book of her short stories, including those previously uncollected.


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By: Nina Leger

ISBN: 9781846276866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
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Winner of the Prix Anais Nin

Following a woman named Jeanne through the anonymous hotel rooms of Paris, this novel is a candid exploration of sexuality, desire and compulsion.


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By: Shannon Stoker

ISBN: 9780062271747
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Jeremy Page

ISBN: 9780349138787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The first historical novel from a critically acclaimed writer, in which the characters are fuelled by obsession, passion and ghosts, The Collector of Lost Things is an extraordinarily compulsive read.


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By: Rosa Liksom

ISBN: 9781644450086
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
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In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are terrifying and vividly evoked in The Colonels Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment.


(Hardback)

By: Jonathan Bennett

ISBN: 9781770411784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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In this powerful novel of love and family, a doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does break out, they are swept up by rebel forces and separated. The Colonial Hotel recasts for the twenty-first century the ancient Greek story of Paris, Helen and Oenone.

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