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By: Johanna Lane

ISBN: 9780755396320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Ireland. A home. A childhood. 'A poignant, haunting tale that really resonates' PA


(Paperback, Main)

By: Kimberly King Parsons

ISBN: 9781838951290
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Black Light is a crunchy collection of short stories about defended tenderness, bodies, smut and drugs.


(Hardback)

By: Kwan

ISBN: 9781636140506
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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By: Kevin Young

ISBN: 9780375710506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Young channels the world of detective movies, picking up its lingo and dark glamor in five "reels" of poetry, for the adventures of a "soft-boiled" private eye, known as A.K.A. Jones, and an ingenue turned femme fatale, Delilah Redbone, who's come to town from down south.


(Paperback)

By: Evelyn Waugh

ISBN: 9780141183985
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. With the aid of Minister of Modernization, Basil Seal, Seth plans to introduce his people to the civilized ways of the west.


(Paperback)

By: Kenneth Calhoun

ISBN: 9780099587347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Imagine a world without sleep. A world driven to the brink of exhaustion. A waking nightmare.

The world has stopped sleeping.

After six restless days and nights, Biggs wakes to find his wife gone. He stumbles out of the house in search of her to find a world awash with pandemonium.


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By: Alain Mabanckou

ISBN: 9781781256749
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017: the larger-than-life, laugh-out-loud story of an African Oliver Twist.


(Paperback)

By: Rumer Godden

ISBN: 9781844088393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The basis for Powell & Pressburger's Academy Award-winning 1947 film, Rumer Godden's much-admired classic novel tells the story of a sisterhood of nuns on a mission in Himalayan India.


(Paperback)

By: Gillian Slovo

ISBN: 9781844083138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* From the author of ICE ROAD, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, comes a love story that cuts across race and culture


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By: John Lawton

ISBN: 9781611855920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2012
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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The first of the Inspector Troy novels, Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era.


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By: Masuji Ibuse

ISBN: 9781568364179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
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Effects of the Hiroshima bombing on one Japanese family.


(Paperback)

By: Susan Hill

ISBN: 9780099539568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Powerful Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece Sunday Mirror

Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit.


(Paperback)

By: Izzet Celasin

ISBN: 9781906694838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A Turkish refugee explores the social and political tensions that forced him to flee his country.


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By: Mikhail Bulgakov

ISBN: 9780099479321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TERRY GILLIAM

When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt.


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By: Mikhail Bulgakov

ISBN: 9781847493538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire.


(Paperback)

By: Barry Gifford

ISBN: 9781609809980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2020
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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"A novel; Una novela"--Opposing cover pages.


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By: Tola Rotimi Abraham

ISBN: 9781838851583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Canongate Books
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This debut novel follows the fate of one family over the course of two decades in Nigeria.


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By: Dambudzo Marechera

ISBN: 9781035906161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Adelle Stripe

ISBN: 9780708898956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A compelling debut novel that heralds a bright new voice on the literary scene: shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Portico Prize for Literature.


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By: Adelle Stripe

ISBN: 9780349020105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Best known for her classic black comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Andrea Dunbar wrote three plays before dying at a tragically young age - this brilliant novel tells her story.


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By: Angela Carter

ISBN: 9780099480716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1996
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Based on real people, this volume offers a collection of stories focusing on mingling history, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy.


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By: A. Igoni Barrett

ISBN: 9780099587446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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BLACKASS

Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster - except for one thing: despite his radical transformation, Furo's ass remains robustly black .


(Paperback)

By: Sharon Farrow

ISBN: 9781496704887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
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Between a booming art scene and elaborate Independence Day festivities, July in the lakeshore town of Oriole Point, Michigan, is always a blast. But when Marlee Jacob, owner of The Berry Basket, stumbles upon a dead body, she must rush to catch an elusive murderer. Includes berry recipes. Original.


(Paperback)

By: Joanne Harris

ISBN: 9780552998000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2001
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide the key to an old mystery. As the unusual properties of the strange brew take effect, Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in the French village.

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