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(Paperback)
By: David Leavitt
ISBN: 9780753822005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2007
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer, and who received a royal pardon in 2013
(Hardback)
By: Richard Wright
ISBN: 9781598536768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2021
Publisher: The Library of America
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"A Library of America special publication."
(Hardback)
By: Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN: 9781556435195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
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By the winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Life Achievement awards, this latest volume--written between 1957 and 1960--finds Sturgeon in fine form as he gains recognition for the first time as a literary short story writer.
(Hardback)
By: Christina Stead
ISBN: 9781857152074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1995
Publisher: Everyman
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THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN is a magnificent, heartrending novel of American family life, of the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives, set in Baltimore in the 1930s.
(Paperback)
By: Jilly Cooper
ISBN: 9780552156394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2007
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Soon Lysander is convinced that Kitty must be rescued from Rannaldini at all costs, even if it means enlisting the help of the old blue-eyed havoc maker: Rupert Campbell-Black.
(Paperback)
By: Jean Giono
ISBN: 9781860461170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 16th November 1995
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Over the years the desolate hills and lifeless villages which so oppressed the traveller are transformed by the dedication of one man. This title offers a hymn to creation and a purveyor of confidence in man's ability to change his - indeed the world's - lot.
(Paperback)
By: Omer Friedlander
ISBN: 9781399803946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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'Extraordinarily imaginative . . . every one of these stories moved me' SIGRID NUNEZ; an exceptional short story collection set in conflict zones in the Middle East by a prize-winning debut author
(Paperback)
By: Omer Friedlander
ISBN: 9781399803953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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'Extraordinarily imaginative . . . every one of these stories moved me' SIGRID NUNEZ; an exceptional short story collection set in conflict zones in the Middle East by a prize-winning debut author
(Hardback)
By: Rosemary Friedman
ISBN: 9781909807259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A delightful series of short stories, providing a composite portrait of women and how the worlds they inhabit have changed over the past 50 years.
(Paperback)
By: Maud Casey
ISBN: 9781620403136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Unconventional and engaging . . . [A] beautifully crafted interweaving of image and observation, fairy tale and fact. --Publishers Weekly, starred review
(Paperback)
By: Wu Ming-Yi
ISBN: 9780099575627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize
On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God.
(Paperback)
By: Nelson Algren
ISBN: 9781644212158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Nelson Algren
ISBN: 9781841955612
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
UK Publication Date: 12th January 2005
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den.
(Paperback)
By: Graham Greene
ISBN: 9780099286158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the house of a young, isolated woman who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court.
(Paperback)
By: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780008165413
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality
(Paperback)
By: Robert Musil
ISBN: 9781447289432
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force
(Paperback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780007203949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this examination of post-War French intellectual life, and a chronicle of love and philosophy.
(Paperback)
By: Lionel Shriver
ISBN: 9780062467140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Benjamn Labatut
ISBN: 9781782279815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Hardback)
By: C. A. Castle
ISBN: 9781639105601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
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(Hardback)
By: Christina Li
ISBN: 9781408748930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this unputdownable gothic, sapphic novel about the dangerous secrets that lie in wait in a crumbling mansion in the Hollywood Hills and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese-American families fighting to inherit it.
(Paperback)
By: Enrique de Heriz
ISBN: 9780753828168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The world's best magician is going blind, but is there a story in his past that can save him
(Paperback)
By: Laura McLoughlin
ISBN: 9781785305818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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A young waitress at a country hotel finds herself with a decades' old mystery to solve - one she hopes will help rid the hotel of its most troublesome guests . . .
(Hardback)
By: Laura McLoughlin
ISBN: 9781785305825
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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A young waitress at a country hotel finds herself with a decades' old mystery to solve - one she hopes will help rid the hotel of its most troublesome guests . . .
