Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction

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  • Books on Demand Gmbh Those blue Eyes

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  • Atrium Verlag AG Der kleine Mann

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  • Alles was wir geben mussten Roman

    Blessing Karl Verlag Alles was wir geben mussten Roman

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  • Das Wolfskind auf der Flucht

    Edition Riedenburg E.U. Das Wolfskind auf der Flucht

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  • El Hablador  The Storyteller

    Prh Grupo Editorial El Hablador The Storyteller

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  • Santillana Educacin, S.L. Matilda

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  • Frida Folk

    Tara Books Frida Folk

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    Book Synopsis"Here’s another book about Frida Kahlo, and this one doesn’t feature even a single original painting. What it does contain are encounters with her– curious, moving, or just fun – from around the world. From Frida fashion dolls to little clay Friditas, all of us at some point have encountered the countless souvenirs, images and mementos that reinvent the great Mexican artist, and keep her alive in popular memory. Her own painting was steeped in Mexican folk art, and the connection has turned out to be curiously reciprocal. Popular artists – not just in Mexico but around the world – have been inspired by her life, art, and persona, to come up with extraordinary and at times very curious tributes to her. The ways in which she is repeatedly re-labeled and re-invented is unprecedented in the world of art. Is this global appropriation of Frida as an icon – Fridamania – just commercial kitsch? Or is there another way of thinking about the phenomenon? Featuring a staggering variety of Frida objects, images and mementoes in every conceivable material, this book traces some of the trails that Frida herself laid... a legacy which allows people to create their own countless versions of her. "

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  • Culturea Les Trois Yeux

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  • Bibliotech Press Zanoni

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  • The Red Pony

    Penguin Books Ltd The Red Pony

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    Book SynopsisRaised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, the hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature and, particularly, the ways of man.

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  • The Complete Novels Penguin Classics Deluxe

    Penguin Books Ltd The Complete Novels Penguin Classics Deluxe

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    Book SynopsisIncludes seven novels such as: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion", and "Lady Susan".

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  • El Filibusterismo Penguin Classics

    Penguin Books Ltd El Filibusterismo Penguin Classics

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    Book SynopsisIn the spirit of The Count of Monte Cristo and Les Misérables, a major new translation-José Rizal's stunning continuation of Noli Me Tangere. José Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino nationalism and independence. His masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, is widely considered to be the foundational novel of the Philippines. In this riveting continuation, which picks up the story thirteen years later, Rizal departs from the Noli's themes of innocent love and martyrdom to present a gripping tale of obsession and revenge. Clearly demonstrating Rizal's growth as a writer, and influenced by his exposure to international events, El Filibusterismo is a thrilling and suspenseful account of Filipino resistance to colonial rule that still resonates today.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin

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  • Silas Marner Bantam Classics

    Random House USA Inc Silas Marner Bantam Classics

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    Book SynopsisEmbittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.

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  • Sourcebooks, Inc Anne of Avonlea Anne of Green Gables Novels 02

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    Book SynopsisThe sequel to the beloved Anne of Green Gables, now in a beautiful new edition!

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  • Creative Company The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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  • Oliver Twist

    Focus on the Family Publishing Oliver Twist

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  • Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

    Soft Skull Press Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

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    Book SynopsisThis tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society (The New York Times) is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf from a National Book Award-winning author.In 1934, a sickly pathetic marmoset” named Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. After he nursed her back to health, she became a ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society. Moving with Leonard and Virginia Woolf between their homes in London and Sussex, she developed her own special relationship with each of them, as well as with their pet cocker spaniels and with various members of the Woolfs’ circle, among them T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. Mitz also helped the Woolfs escape a close call with Nazis during a trip through Germany just before the outbreak of World War II. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, and other archival documents, Nunez reconstructs Mitz’s life against the background of Bloomsbury’s twilight years. This tender and imaginative mock biography offers a striking look at the lives of writers and artists shadowed by war, death, and mental breakdown, and at the solace and amusement inspired by its tiny subject--and this new edition includes an afterword by Peter Cameron and a never-before-published letter about Mitz by Nigel Nicolson.“In short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time.” —The Wall Street Journal

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  • The Black Arrow

    NuVision Publications The Black Arrow

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  • Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems (LOA

    The Library of America Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems (LOA

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    Book SynopsisComplete in one volume for the first time, the joyous, jazz-saturated fiction of one of our foremost African American writers, including the four-novel Scooter sequenceOne of the leading cultural critics of his generation, Albert Murray was also the author of an extraordinary quartet of semi-autobiographical novels, vivid impressionistic portraits of black life in the Deep South in the 1920s and ''30s and in prewar New York City. Train Whistle Guitar (1974) introduces Murray''s recurring narrator and protagonist, Scooter, a "Southern jackrabbit raised in a briarpatch" too nimble ever to receive a scratch. Scooter''s education in books, music, and the blue-steel bent-note blues-ballad realities of American life continues in The Spyglass Tree (1991), Murray''s "Portrait of the Artist as a Tuskegee Undergraduate." The Seven League Boots (1996) follows Scooter as he becomes a bass player in a touring band not unlike Duke Ellington''s, and The Magic Keys (2005), in which Scooter at last finds his true vocation as a writer in Greenwich Village, is an elegaic reverie on an artist''s life. Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin round out the volume with a selection of Murray''s remarkable poems, including 11 unpublished pieces from his notebooks, and two rare examples of his work as a short story writer.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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    £42.75

  • The Great Passion

    Bloomsbury Publishing The Great Passion

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  • Still In Love: A Novel

    Counterpoint Still In Love: A Novel

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  • Killingly

    Soho Press Killingly

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    Book SynopsisBased on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897—a haunting novel of intrigue, longing, and terror, perfect for fans of Donna Tartt and Sarah WatersMassachusetts, 1897: Bertha Mellish, “the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl” at Mount Holyoke College, is missing.As a search team dredges the pond where Bertha might have drowned, her panicked father and sister arrive desperate to find some clue to her fate or state of mind. Bertha’s best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine, might know the truth, but she is being unhelpfully tightlipped, inciting the suspicions of Bertha’s family, her classmates, and the private investigator hired by the Mellish family doctor. As secrets from Agnes’s and Bertha’s lives come to light, so do the competing agendas driving each person who is searching for Bertha.Where did Bertha go? Who would want to hurt her? And could she still be alive?Edmund White Award–winning author Katharine Beutner takes a real-life unsolved mystery and crafts it into an unforgettable historical portrait of academia, family trauma, and the risks faced by women who dared to pursue unconventional paths at the end of the 19th century.

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    £16.11

  • Bajo un cielo escarlata / Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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    £17.95

  • Santa Evita (Spanish Edition)

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC Santa Evita (Spanish Edition)

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    £15.26

  • 1,000 Coils of Fear: A Novel

    Catapult 1,000 Coils of Fear: A Novel

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    Book SynopsisA multilayered and rhythmic debut novel about her life as a Black German woman living in Berlin and New York during the chaos of the 2016 U.S. presidential election from playwright Olivia Wenzel.A young woman attends a play about the fall of the Berlin Wall—and realizes she is the only Black person in the audience.She and her boyfriend are hanging out by a lake outside Berlin—and four neo-Nazis show up.In New York, she is having sex with a stranger on the night of the 2016 presidential election—and wakes up to panicked texts from her friends in Germany about Donald Trump’s unlikely victory.Engaging in a witty Q&A with herself—or is it her alter ego?—she takes stock of our rapidly changing times, sometimes angry, sometimes amused, sometimes afraid, and always passionate. And she tells the story of her family: Her mother, a punk in former East Germany who never had the freedom she dreamed of. Her Angolan father, who returned to his home country before she was born to start a second family. Her grandmother, whose life of obedience to party principles brought her prosperity and security but not happiness. And her twin brother, who took his own life at the age of nineteen.Heart-rending, opinionated, and wry, Olivia Wenzel’s remarkable debut novel is a clear-sighted and polyphonic investigation into origins and belonging, the roles society wants to force us into and why we need to resist them, and the freedoms and fears that being the odd one out brings.

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  • Emergency

    Astra Publishing House Emergency

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    Book SynopsisFor readers of Rachel Cusk and Jenny Odell, a lyrical work of autofiction that explores the dissolution of boundaries between the self and our earth as we head towards ecological catastrophe.“Emergency is an incisive kaleidoscope of past and present, nature and industry, stillness and pace, collapsing all into a tapestry of consciousness.” —Ayşegül Savaş, author of Walking on the Ceiling Emergency is a novel about the interconnectedness of all life on Earth. Our narrator is at home during lockdown, where she ponders both past and present. She remembers her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She recalls a kestrel hunt, helping a farmer save a renegade bull, and days playing with her best friend, Clare. In her village, neighbors argue, keep secrets, care for one another, and try to hold down jobs. Fox cubs fight in the woods, plants compete for space, a quarry slowly falls apart, and we see a three-legged deer who likes cake. With painterly vision, Hildyard evokes the bygone, pre-internet world of her schooldays, whose irretrievability signals at something far greater than fleeting youth. With urgent intimacy, Emergency asks us to look at the essential; the people who help define us, animals, local and global ecologies, and to consider what the slow disappearance of Hildyard’s and our own native environment might mean for humanity at large. A requiem for the English countryside, a story of remote violence, and a work of praise for a persistently lively world, Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency reinvents the pastoral novel for the climate change era.Trade Review"In refusing to privilege human drama over natural processes, Hildyard captures the ecosystem’s delicate interconnectedness and suggests a new way of writing about our toll on the environment." —The New Yorker"[Emergency is] a gorgeous novel of a youth spent on the cusp of societal upheaval."—Publishers Weekly"The beauty of Emergency is in its attempt to glimpse an expanded paradigm of meaning, which encompasses but isn’t limited to our own." —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Emergency is a crucial intervention. It drives a stake into the heart of the pastoral genre . . . This is what nature writing should be: absurd, overwhelming, and chaotically alive with the din of the world." —Lauren Collee, The Rumpus"There is something energetic in Emergency, something mystical about the human and non-human really meeting . . . Emergency reminds us, through its young protagonist, that we often miss so much of the world, so much of reality."—Alan Rossi, Literary Hub"In meditative and exquisitely constructed descriptions . . . the natural world comes to us, blazingly alive, and our place in it does too." —Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, The White Review "A stunning book—a balm for our times—containing the incredible gift of the everyday."—Kirkus, Starred Review"A quiet, complicated hymn to nature . . . [Emergency] is a novel with an elastic strangeness, gliding seamlessly between the familiar and the surreal . . . In the wake of the biggest natural melodrama of recent times, Emergency is a thoughtful, poised reflection on how much change we humans, among the animals, can ever bring to bear." —Natalie Whittle, Financial Times “This quiet, well-written novel, which has a surprise ending, is worth a look.” —Barbara Love, Library Journal"Daisy Hildyard has confronted our new nature and, bravely, compellingly, makes our shared emergency visible." —Clare Pettitt, Times Literary Supplement "A keenly observed book of naturalism, [Emergency] is about a place, an era and the tenuous epoch of childhood which are all as fragile and fleeting as they are eternal in symbol and memory. I loved this book. When I finished it, I started over at the beginning." —Sarah Blackman, Heavy Feather Review "Emergency is a quiet novel that explores with remarkable subtlety the deep and fraying interconnectedness of life on earth. Hildyard writes with the precision and associative leaps of a poet . . . It’s something new that will linger long after you’ve finished reading."—Stephen Sparks, Bookseller at Point Reyes Books “A common fragility unites all species in this quietly magnificent novel.”—Damian Walsh, Literary Review “This book succeeds because of the chilly and beautifully sustained voice of its narrator, the precise embroidery of its sentences and paragraphs, its observations of the natural world and insistence that there is no distinction between humans and environments.” —Sarah Moss, The Guardian“Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency is a pastoral novel for the age of dissolving boundaries.The slowness and gentleness of the text, its pace and its language, make you consider its title.”—Abi Andrews, The Irish Times“Past and present, nature and humanity, life and death intermix, ebbing and flowing in a stream of prose that carries the reader on an exhilarating … and violent ride.”—Philippa Nutall, The New Statesman“Hildyard doesn’t offer the narratives of therapy, social criticism or self-development to be found in other English pastoralists …. Her style is more reminiscent of such contemporary poets as Kathleen Jamie and Alice Oswald, with their quiet and attentive watchfulness to a non-human reality they only half-understand. Her prose calls for, and frequently earns, the same respectful attentiveness from its readers.”—Dr. Nikhil Krishnan, The Telegraph

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  • Living

    The New York Review of Books, Inc Living

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  • Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

    The New York Review of Books, Inc Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

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  • Machines in the Head: Selected Stories

    The New York Review of Books, Inc Machines in the Head: Selected Stories

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  • Sourcebooks The Presidents Wife

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  • Arminius: The Limits of Empire

    Atlantic Books Arminius: The Limits of Empire

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    Book SynopsisOne man's greatest victory.Rome's greatest defeat.A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius of the Cherusci led a confederation of six Germanic tribes in the annihilation of three Roman legions. Deep in the forest almost twenty thousand men were massacred without mercy; fewer than two hundred of them ever made it back across the Rhine. To Rome's shame, three sacred Eagles were lost that day.But Arminius wasn't brought up in Germania Magna - he had been raised as a Roman. This is the story of how Arminius came to turn his back on the people who raised him and went on to commit a betrayal so great and so deep, it echoed through the ages.______________________________________________Don't miss Robert Fabbri's epic new series Alexander's Legacy Trade ReviewFabbri presents a powerfully chilling, detailed and dramatic depiction of those terrible days in the forest. * Express *Fabbri does an excellent job with this scintillating source material. -- Antonia Senior * The Times *Robert Fabbri has a winner on his hands. * The BookPlank *A stonking read. * Classic FM *Fabbri's Vespasian novels have been creating quite a stir. * The History Girls *

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  • To The Strongest: 'Terrific series' Conn Iggulden

    Atlantic Books To The Strongest: 'Terrific series' Conn Iggulden

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    Book Synopsis'I loved to the strongest' CONN IGGULDEN, bestselling author of Protector'An excellent new series by the consistently brilliant Robert Fabbri' Sunday SportLet the battles begin... 'I foresee great struggles at my funeral games.'Babylon, 323 BC: Alexander the Great is dead, leaving behind him the largest, and most fearsome, empire the world has ever seen. As his final breaths fade in a room of seven bodyguards, Alexander refuses to name a successor. But without a natural heir, who will take the reins?As the news of the king's sudden and unexpected death ripples across the land, leaving all in disbelief, the ruthless battle for the throne begins. What follows is a devious, tangled web of scheming and plotting, with alliances quickly made and easily broken, each rival with their own agenda.But who will emerge victorious: the half-chosen; the one-eyed; the wildcat; the general; the bastard; the regent? In the end, only one man, or indeed woman, will be left standing...Trade ReviewFabbri does an admirable job of marshalling his characters and leavens the dark politics with wit and action * Antonia Senior, The Times *An excellent new series by the consistently brilliant Robert Fabbri. * Sunday Sport *A powerful retelling of one of the most dramatic events in ancient history. * Nick Rennison, BBC History, on Arminius *Powerfully chilling, detailed and dramatic. * Express Online on Arminius *Fabbri does an excellent job with this scintillating source material. * Antonia Senior, The Times, praise for the Vespasian series *An epic, brutal, and blood-thirsty journey. * Sunday Post on the Vespasian series *Stuffed with political deviousness. * Jon Wise, Sunday Sport, on the Vespasian Series *Gripping... incredibly well researched, detailed and historically accurate... As far as ancient history novels go this is one of the very best I have read recently. * New Books Magazine *

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  • The Three Paradises

    Atlantic Books The Three Paradises

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    Book Synopsis'This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable' CONN IGGULDENAn empire in turmoil. A throne for the taking. Alexander the Great's sudden and unexpected death has left the largest, most formidable empire the world has ever seen leaderless. As the fight to take control descends into ruthless scheming and bloody battles, no one - man, woman or child - is safe. As wars on land and sea are lost and won, and promises are made only to be broken, long-buried secrets come to light in the quest for the true circumstances surrounding Alexander's death. Was he murdered, and if so by whom? Could he have been sowing the seeds of discord deliberately, through his refusal to name an heir? And who will eventually ascend to power at the helm of the empire - if it manages to survive that long? Can one champion vanquish all...?'An excellent new series by the consistently brilliant Robert Fabbri' Sunday Sport Trade ReviewFabbri brings the [ancient world] vibrantly to life in this most excellent read * Sunday Sport *Fabbri does an admirable job of marshalling his characters and leavens the dark politics with wit and action. -- Antonia Senior on 'To The Strongest' * The Times *An excellent new series by the consistently brilliant Robert Fabbri * Sunday Sport on To The Strongest *The locations and characters are truly epic - this may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Terrific series. Scene by scene, I grew to love these characters. Fabbri has captured darkness in a bottle here. This series unfolds old maps, beats an ancient drum. Hugely enjoyable. -- Conn Iggulden, bestselling author of Protector

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  • Somebodys Luggage

    Hesperus Press Ltd Somebodys Luggage

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  • The Marvellous Land of Oz 2

    Hesperus Press Ltd The Marvellous Land of Oz 2

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  • Tales of the Islanders Hesperus Classics

    £12.30

  • The Blue Castle

    Hesperus Press Ltd The Blue Castle

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  • The Children of the New Forest Hesperus Minor

    Hesperus Press Ltd The Children of the New Forest Hesperus Minor

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  • The Canterville Ghost Hesperus Classics

    Hesperus Press Ltd The Canterville Ghost Hesperus Classics

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  • Memoirs of a MotherinLaw Alma Classics

    Alma Books Ltd Memoirs of a MotherinLaw Alma Classics

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisRediscovered satirical work by one of the greatest satirists of the turn of the last century. Since mothers-in-law have always been misunderstood and no one has ever taken up their side of the argument properly, Jane is determined to set the record straight and plead the cause of the most maligned race on the face of the earth.

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  • The Last Day of a Condemned Man New Translation

    Bloomsbury USA The Last Day of a Condemned Man New Translation

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  • Memoirs of a Madman and November Alma Classics

    Alma Books Ltd Memoirs of a Madman and November Alma Classics

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisA unique edition containing two stories, both precursors to Flaubert's later masterpiece, A Sentimental Education

    10 in stock

    £13.46

  • Incest Alma Classics

    Alma Books Ltd Incest Alma Classics

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  • For Ever and Ever Amen

    Troubador Publishing For Ever and Ever Amen

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisForever and Ever Amen is the story of the childhood experiences of James, a nine-year old living in Manchester in the late 1960s. Frequent flashbacks to half remembered events in St Kitts signal ongoing connections between the two locations. Issues of class, migration, poverty and racism linger at the edge of the boy’s partial insights into family happenings and personal histories. All this is told with an eye on the priorities of a child; lemon fudgesicles, runny egg yolk and Chinese burns in the playground. Previously published by Hodder Headline.

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  • Sea Monsters: A Novel

    Catapult Sea Monsters: A Novel

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, this intoxicating story of a teenage girl who trades her a middle–class upbringing for a quest for meaning in 1980s Mexico is “a surreal, captivating tale about the power of a youthful imagination, the lure of teenage transgression, and its inevitable disappointments” (Los Angeles Review of Books).One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen–year–old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking―recklessness, impulse, independence.Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa’s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will “promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery.” It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the “Beach of the Dead.”Meanwhile, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Set to a pulsing soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us.Aridjis is deft at conjuring the teenage swooniness that apprehends meaning below every surface. Like Sebald’s or Cusk’s, her haunted writing patrols its own omissions . . . The figure of the shipwreck looms large for Aridjis. It becomes a useful lens through which to see this book, which is self–contained, inscrutable, and weirdly captivating, like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea. ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

    10 in stock

    £16.14

  • The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon: A Novel

    Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon: A Novel

    Book SynopsisA remembrance of love in a time of war. 92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day. Before he dies, he hopes to at last address a grief he has allowed to simmer for decades and to rekindle memories of Élodie Bedier, the French Resistance fighter with whom he fell in love 70 years earlier, as a way of confronting his grief at losing her. During his return journey, he relives events of 1944: being wounded as he parachutes into Normandy; falling in love with Élodie who nurses him back to health; fighting the Germans alongside her and her resistance companions; and finally abandoning the war to rescue a group of children from the Holocaust, choices that leave Henry at risk of a firing squad for desertion and Élodie vulnerable to fatal condemnation from her compatriots. When he arrives back in France, Henry makes several shocking discoveries that shake the very foundations of the memories he's had of Élodie all these years and he is left to wonder about the love he has had for Élodie: what rests on true memory vs. what is based on countless imagined conversations over the decades?Trade Review"In this beautifully told story of war, heartache, and love, the tale of Henry Budge shines It will bring both tears and laughter and will have readers hoping Henry is able to find what he is looking for." Elizabeth Creel, The US Review of Books"Gautreau's haunting images of the simultaneous shining of moonlight on the different theaters of the war and the 'reflection from the dark side' are awe-inspiring." WAHEED RABBANI, Historial Novel Society"This book is beautifully written, and has a story to tell... The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon is a must read. I trudged with Henry and Elodie up a mountain and down the other side. You can too. Worth every moment." Mary Ann Smyth, http://www.bookloons.com

    £22.46

  • Two Dollar Radio The Red-Headed Pilgrim

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £16.11

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