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From the internationally-renowned author of The Beach, a gripping mystery and stylistic tour de force.

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A hugely entertaining look at every type of mother-in-law, across the world and through the ages.

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The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf include - for the first time, and in parallel translation - all the poems he set to music.

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A chilling, absorbing and topical investigation into the presence of the defence industries in our daily lives.

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In The Consolation of Economics, Gerard Lyons, the chief economic adviser to Boris Johnson, outlines a fascinating and refreshing examination of the changing global economy. He predicts stronger economic growth and a rise in life expectancy, income and educational standards.

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In New Orleans, Texas Ranger John Q is out of his jurisdiction, and possibly out of his depth ...

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Inspired by King Lear, it follows two rivals who come together to discuss what has fuelled them to try and outdo each other.

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The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016.

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In a biography of style and energy, Frances Wilson makes use of previously unseen letters, law reports and confidential Government correspondence to reveal the true story of the sexual celebrity who blackmailed the British aristocracy and held even the king to ransom.

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With over 60 plays written and staged, many playing in the West End or the Royal National Theatre, Alan Ayckbourn's expertise on writing and directing plays is unsurpassed. Here, he shares his tricks of the trade, from helpful hints on writing, to tips on directing.

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A beautiful new edition of The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History, by George Ewart Evans - author of the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay.

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A collection of Vargas Llosa's short fiction whose domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners.

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In this illuminating collection of diary entries, notes-to-self and crumpled post-its, we reveal what's really going on in the Cummings brain.

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The Cure at Troy, by Seamus Heaney, is a verse adaptation of Sophocles' play Philoctetes.

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A bright and charming new poetry collection, from 2009 Costa Book of the Year winner, Christopher Reid.

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The true consequences of dark magic take their toll in this powerful and seductive sequel to The Graces.

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A brilliant exploration of the novel - its history and its art - from one of the genre's most distinguished practitioners.

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A stunning new sequence of war poems from former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.

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The hugely acclaimed novel of '70s football and the turmoil of the game's most charismatic and controversial manager.

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This thrilling new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz opened at the Bath Theatre Royal's Ustinov Theatre in May 2022 before going on UK tour in an Arcola Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Oxford Playhouse and Theatre Royal Bath Productions co-production.

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John lives with his elderly mother and is helping the police with their enquiries. Barnaby and Louisa feel unable to give their new baby a name. Three households live side by side in isolation. Then the lights go out . .

The Dark by Charlotte Jones premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in March 2003.

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McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality.

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Walter Hartwright is married, prosperous and a little bored. When he is approached to write a life of the painter Turner he accepts, unaware that his subject lived a life more dark than light. Researching the painter's life, he is soon affected with its possibilities of violence and even murder that he no longer trusts his own sanity and character.