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From a writer who grew up on the Estuary, this is a fresh take on the Thames, from source to sea

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Brave, lucid, and beautifully written, this is a searing account of life in Palestine from an award-winning writer and journalist.

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The White Cities collects fifteen years of incomparable reportage. 'What Roth sees is always arresting, often atrocious, usually absurd. A journalism which is equal parts Baudelaire, Dickens and Kafka' Scotland on Sunday

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A collection of the best of Sciascia's gritty, darkly glittering short stories.

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Part Le Carre, part Gourevitch, the high-octane story of a journey into one of the wildest corners of the African continent in search of a psychopath who has consistently evaded negotiators, armies and trained assassins .

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The true story of literature -- of how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the world.

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Strange, smart and sexy short stories from one of America's most brilliant contemporary writers.

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From everyday violence and magic to the voices of gossiping neighbours, full of wisdom and dark humour, this engrossing novel about a family house in an African neighbourhood draws on the rich oral traditions of Nigeria.

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One of Britain's greatest contemporary novelists turns her focus, in luminous, powerful prose, to her eccentric childhood in the fifties and sixties.

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A highly original and darkly funny debut novel set in a New York cancer hospital where a disillusioned and alienated Irish doctor struggles with questions of death and life - and love.

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A powerful memoir that reveals the fragility of family life in graphic and often heartbreaking detail.

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It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake & Son Undertakers, laying to rest the bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a grimly familiar duty. But what he is seeing now, as a flu pandemic claims its victims with increasing speed and force, is something different, and for the first time in his life, Henry feels afraid of death.

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A short, propulsive, moody novel about a woman who walks out of her lifeand washes up in an out-of-season seaside town - from a powerful newCanadian-British voice.

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Timothy, a wise and eloquent tortoise, has spent some fifty years among humans, living in their midst in the Hampshire village of Selborne, the occasional object of study for his host, Gilbert White, whose letters famously comprise The Natural History of Selborne. This is an old tortoise's short history of humanity.

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Exciting early work by the Man Booker-shortlisted author, discussing Herge's hugely popular children's books.

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'Stamm sets up the psychological territory with such quiet precision that the reader succumbs at once' - Guardian

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A deeply moving and richly textured story about a woman's search for her Greek birth-father in modern-day Greece and her journey into the dark heart of contemporary Greek history.

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A journey of self-discovery in which the characters learn much about their own secrets and lies

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From a writer who is as dazzling on the dance-floor as she is on the page, here is the hidden story of tango: the world's most passionate dance.

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A fascinating account of the exchange of nearly 2 million citizens between Turkey and Greece in 1923.

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Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike.

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An inventive and immersive speculative novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction - from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.

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Journeying across the British Isles and drawing on his own mining and stonemasonry background, geologist Ted Nield unearths the ways in which the rocks beneath our feet shape our lives.

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A unique reckoning with the human condition, written in beautiful, honest, unsentimental and aphoristic prose.