Contemporary fiction titles are those which focus on the present or near past. Stories rooted in the current cultural, social, and political landscape which feature characters we can all recognise.
Contemporary Fiction Books
Baker Publishing Group The AllAmerican A Novel
Book SynopsisIn this 1950s coming-of-age story, two sisters are left reeling when their father is accused of being a member of the Communist party. Bertha finds a haven with the All-American Girls Baseball League. Flossie finds herself in an unexpected friendship. Both are about to discover how much good there is in the world--even in the hardest of circumstances.
£11.69
Baker Publishing Group Letters from My Sister A Novel
Book SynopsisTwo Sisters. One Single Event. A Family Changed Forever.At the turn of the twentieth century, sisters Emmy and Callie Bullock are living a privileged life as the only daughters of a wealthy Alabama cotton farmer when their well-ordered household gets turned upside down by the arrival of Lily McGee. Arrestingly beautiful, Lily quickly--and innocently--draws the wrong kind of attention. Meanwhile, Callie meets a man who offers her the freedom to abandon social constraints and discover her truest self.After Lily has a baby, Callie witnesses something she was never meant to see--or did she? Her memory is a haze, just an image in her mind of Emmy standing on a darkened riverbank and cradling Lily''s missing baby girl. Only when the sisters are separated does the truth slowly come to light through their letters--including a revelation that will shape the rest of Callie''s life.Bestselling author Valerie Fraser Luesse weaves a complex and suspenseful tale
£10.44
Baker Publishing Group Everything Is Just Beginning A Novel
Book SynopsisOn the night of December 31, 1989--as the Berlin Wall is coming down, the Soviet Union is inching toward democracy, and anything seems possible--a down-on-his luck musician crashes a party and crosses paths with the accomplished and enigmatic young heir to a fading musical dynasty, forever altering both of their futures.
£10.44
Baker Publishing Group He Should Have Told the Bees A Novel
Book SynopsisBeekeeper Beckett Walsh was living her dream working alongside her father on their small farm until his unexpected death thrusts a new part-owner into her world. Callie Peterson threatens not only her livelihood, but her beliefs about the goodness of the man she'd always perceived to be her kind and faithful father.
£11.69
Fleming H. Revell Company A Hidden Hope
£10.79
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Geronimo Rex
Book SynopsisGeronimo Rex, Barry Hannah''s brilliant first novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award, is full of the rare verve and flawless turns of phrase that have defined his status as an American master. Roiling with love and torment, lunacy and desire, hilarity and tenderness, Geronimo Rex is the bildungsroman of an unlikely hero. Reared in gloomy Dream of Pines, Louisiana, whose pines have long since yielded to paper mills, Harry Monroe is ready to take on the world. Inspired by the great Geronimo''s heroic rampage through the Old West, Harry puts on knee boots and a scarf and voyages out into the swamp of adolescence in the South of the 1950s and ''60s. Along the way he is attacked by an unruly peacock; discovers women, rock ''n'' roll, and jazz; and stalks a pervert white supremacist who fancies himself the next Henry Miller.
£11.39
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Invisible Woman
Book SynopsisOther people kill their husbands. Not her.?A darkly clever thriller about women?s thwarted ambitions, celebrity, the Time?s Up movement and revenge.??People (Book of the Week)In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences.Joni Ackerman?s decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. Now they?ve recently transplanted to Brooklyn, so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry and forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val.Joni is adamant that the time has come to tell the story, but Val and Paul are reluctant, for different reasons. As the marriage frays and the friends spar about whether to speak up, Joni?s struggles with isolation in a new city, and old resentments about the sacrifices she made on her family?s behalf start to boil over. She takes solace, of sorts, in the novels of Patricia Highsmith?particularly the masterpiece Strangers on a Train, with its duplicitous characters and their murderous impulses?until the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred.Invisible Woman is at once a literary thriller about the lies we tell each other (and ourselves), and a powerful psychological examination of the complexities of friendship, marriage, and motherhood.
£12.34
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Women Like Us
Book SynopsisKatia Lief’s Women Like Us is a sharply-rendered literary thriller that examines the complexities and responsibilities of female friendship—what brings women together, and what drives them apart. Joni Ackerman was tired of being invisible. It’s been five years since Joni Ackerman tipped the antifreeze into her husband’s cocktail. Five years since he was found dead on the stairs. Five years since she got away with murder. At first, Joni feared the consequences of her transgression, but she’s learned to embrace the power of recklessness in a way she would have hated to see in anyone else. It was that recklessness, after all, that took her to this rewarding new life. Joni now runs Sunny Day Productions alongside her daughter, Chris, and her best friend, Val. All is well in life and work until, one day, their balance is rocked when an unexpected, and unwelcome, visitor appears. When Joni’s brother, Marc, resurfaces after a twenty-year estrangement, Joni braces for the sibling she knew—a cruel, vindictive conman who deftly switched between personas. But this Marc on her doorstep is different. He’s older, softer. And he seems to have overcome the self-inflicted traumas of his past. But Val isn’t fooled. She knows exactly what sort of man Marc is, and she warns Joni to keep her guard up. When Mark inevitably betrays Joni’s trust, Joni is forced to look inward. As dark thoughts, and darker compulsions, take form, Joni can’t help but wonder: ‘Is psychopathy a family trait?’
£17.99
Moody Publishers The Imitation of Christ
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£11.53
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Winter People
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£13.49
Random House Publishing Group The Collected Short Stories Of Louis Lamour
Book SynopsisThe stories of Louis L’Amour are built around the dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge into the unknown—into split-second decisions with life-and-death consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than in this quintessential collection of stories set on the American frontier. Here L’Amour takes us across a bold, beautifully rendered landscape where old scores haunt new lives, the wrong choice leaves unwitting victims, and strangers may come to trust—or kill—one another. Fugitives, visionaries, fortune seekers, drifters, and young women trying to build homes on a lawless frontier, the characters in these pulse-pounding stories are vintage L’Amour. Together in this vivid, rollicking collection, they bring to life the spirit of adventure and confirm Louis L’Amour’s place in the pantheon of American writers.
£7.59
Tuttle Publishing Mister Timeless Blyth A Biographical Novel
Book Synopsis*Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2024 Longlist*Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring!An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place. In Mister Timeless Blyth, writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto) biography, convincingly in R.H. Blyth's own voice. In it, he has conveyed the haiku scholar's love of music, eastern and western literature, Zen Buddhism, and sly contradictions. Blyth's profound understanding of haiku and his self-deprecating humor permeate every page. Throughout this work, Mr. Spence has included an interesting constellation of characters who influenced Blyth on what he considered his own karmic path, giving us an entirely new perspective of his life and personal development. I could not put the book down. William Scott Wilson, author of The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka TanedaImprisoned during World War I as a conscientious objector and interned during World War II as an enemy alien, Reginald Horace Blyth waTrade Review"In Mister Timeless Blyth, writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto) biography, convincingly in R.H. Blyth's own voice. In it, he has conveyed the haiku scholar's love of music, eastern and western literature, Zen Buddhism, and sly contradictions. Blyth's profound understanding of haiku and his self-deprecating humor permeate every page. Throughout this work, Mr. Spence has included an interesting constellation of characters who influenced Blyth on what he considered his own karmic path, giving us an entirely new perspective of his life and personal development. I could not put the book down." -- William Scott Wilson, author of The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda"One of Scotland's most accomplished literary talents." -- The Sunday Times"Spence is a necessary visionary, all openness of instinct and imagination." -- Ali Smith
£17.09
Tuttle Publishing Korean Folktales
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£9.49
Louisiana State University Press Operation Dimwit
Book SynopsisBuilding on the comedic hijinks of Penelope Lemon: Game On!, Operation Dimwit is a warmhearted look at the challenges of being a single working mom trying to stay afloat in the middle class after a divorce.Trade ReviewPenelope's perils make wonderfully absurd reading. . . . clever, amusing, and mildly addictive. [Previous praise] A laugh-out-loud funny tale of misfortune and female friendship. Majors's latest is a riot from beginning to end. This sequel has all the fun of its successor, focused on the loyal and unwavering friendship between two unstoppable southern women. [Previous praise] Saucy and profane and funny on every page. [Previous praise] A light and lively send-up of modern woes. [Previous praise] A stellar addition to Inman Majors's growing body of southern comic novels.
£26.55
Louisiana State University Press Miracles Come on Mondays
Book SynopsisWith echoes of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, Penelope Cray creates dark and sometimes darkly funny scenes that most resemble the works of Kafka. Cray's characters strain against the indifference of everyday life until, too tired to yearn anymore, they begin the systematic work of making their worlds mentally and spiritually tolerable.
£18.00
New Directions Publishing Corporation Adventures In Immediate Irreality
Book SynopsisOften called “the Kafka of Romania,” Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel.Trade Review"When you read his books it's hard to believe your eyes. The author of this masterpiece was a twenty-five-year-old already weakened by disease, but Blecher's words don't merely describe the objects—they dig their talons into the things and hoist them high." -- Herta Müller"Blecher has often been compared to Kafka (and not without reason), but the strongest connection, however, is with Salvador Dalí. Like Dalí's 'soft clocks,' everything here is about to melt. It is as though Blecher's world is always on the verge of ontological collapse; from behind the veil of things, nothingness stares out at him." -- The Times Literary Supplement"An extraordinary writer, in the family of Kafka and Bruno Schulz. A short life, overwhelmed by disease; a small—but great—magical work. Hallucinatory, intense, and deeply authentic, its literary force is fueled, paradoxically and not entirely, by an acute sensitivity and ardor." -- Norman Manea"Sleekly liquid work, the poetry of seething matter itself." -- Dustin Illingworth - 3:AM"This is, in any case, a book deserving of new readers, by a writer whose remaining body of work I can only hope will finally appear in its entirety in this country." -- The Nation
£11.39
New Directions Publishing Corporation Laziness in the Fertile Valley
Book SynopsisA portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as the Voltaire of the NileTrade Review"Despite the seemingly unrelieved gloom and futility in which his figures move, Cossery nevertheless expresses in every work the indomitable faith in the power of people to throw off the yoke." -- Henry Miller
£11.39
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Night Before Christmas
Book SynopsisNikolai Gogol's hilarious and macabre tale of a Christmas Eve with a devil and a romantic twist.
£8.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation These Possible Lives
Book SynopsisBrief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylistTrade Review"Jaeggy’s book is poetical-biographical, fictional-critical, essayistic-historical—a book unlimited." -- Commonweal Magazine"Jaeggy is a master of the short form; her essays are charged with a nearly combustible vitality, her stories without fail are compact and devastating. Long after the pleasure of reading is over, their little hooks tug at — what is it, the heart or the mind? These Possible Lives presents brief portraits of three real-life metaphysicians: English opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, Romantic poet John Keats and French symbolist Marcel Schwob. The biographies are constructed from unconnected details culled from accounts by her subjects and contemporaries, rather than from narrative and analysis. The results vibrant and unforced, shimmering with the complexity of reality." -- Financial Times"Enjoy these short, meditative pieces slowly; Jaeggy is addictive." -- Kirkus Reviews"Three spare and telegraphic essays about Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob, in which each account is self-contained and exquisitely precise, capture the arc of a whole life with filigreed economy." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"Terse beauties falling on the reader like a chaste gray rain." -- Robert Byers - The New Republic"In These Possible Lives (2017, translated by Minna Zallman Proctor) Jaeggy offers three very short biographical sketches of Keats, De Quincey, and the fin-de-siecle symbolist orientalist Jewish Parisian Schwob. Their hallucinatory intensity and heightened language recall the prose poems of Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris, with their invocations of wine and hashish, their pose of le poete maudit." -- Margaret Drabble - The New Statesman"Brilliant, associative and short, Jaeggy’s essays have the beauty and economy of poems but the souls of portraits, discovering 'human characteristics amidst the chaos' — which fairly describes her project overall." -- Martin Riker - The New York Times Book Review"Small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused." -- The New Yorker"She has the enviable first glance for people and things, she harbors a mixture of distracted levity and authoritative wisdom." -- Ingeborg Bachmann"Delicious—such monstrous control and insight that at moments while reading you experience a distinct feeling of levitation." -- Carole Maso
£9.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Devils in Daylight
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, a suspenseful early novella from the outstanding Japanese novelist of this century (Edmund White).Trade Review"A rumination about the nature of fiction itself." -- Kirkus"Tanizaki laminates a murder mystery and psychological study onto a rumination about the nature of fiction itself." -- Kirkus Reviews"This captivating short novel exemplifies why Tanizaki is considered an innovator of modern Japanese literature. The prose is cunning and compelling, evoking classic Asian folklore and elements of Don Quixote." -- Publishers Weekly"Devils in Daylight, from 1918, reads like a breathless snuff film cowritten by Poe and Simenon." -- Pico Iyer - The New York Review of Books"It is no bad thing to be reminded from time to time that Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s remarkably fresh and intimate voice is speaking to us across a gulf of years and cultures." -- Edmund Gordon - The Times Literary Supplement"The outstanding Japanese novelist of this century." -- Edmund White"An absorbing read...quite likely you’ll gulp it all down in a single sitting." -- Tony Malone"Tanizaki was a great writer. He understood the fetish-making fecundity of love, and the satisfactions it offers even while giving pain, and its perverse, inverse accountings." -- John Updike"Tanizaki is one of my favorites. His books are about love and very often perverse aspects of love." -- Henry Miller
£9.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Three Streets
Book SynopsisYoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in BerlinTrade Review"Tawada's stories agitate the mind like songs half-remembered or treasure boxes whose keys are locked within." -- The New York Times"Tawada is reminiscent of Nikolai Gogol, for whom the natural situation for a ghost story was a minor government employee saving up to buy a fancy coat, the natural destiny of a nose to haunt its owner as an overbearing nobleman." -- Rivka Galchen - The New York Times Magazine"Tawada’s strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity, and what it means to own someone else’s story or one’s own." -- The New Yorker"These stories reinvent familiar landmarks and artworks, giving readers an imaginative and hopeful way to grapple with the history that’s written into the urban landscape." -- Publishers Weekly"Three Streets is one of the most explicitly dialectical works in Tawada’s oeuvre. It pursues a left project not only in form but also in content—an engagement with the plight of the poor, the disenfranchised, the forgotten—and leaves her readers no doubt that, at the end of the day, her project has political stakes." -- Reed McConnell - The Baffler"“The mystery of what it means to be human”—this phrase, which pops up early in “Kollwitz Strasse,” is an apt description of what Tawada aims to explore in these stories. From one moment to the next, her narratives can be mystifying. In time, though, they cohere into engrossing meditations on historical memory and the oft-baffling nature of life in this century.” " -- Kevin Canfield - World Literature Today"In her latest work of fiction Three Streets, Tawada brings her remarkable intelligence and linguistic playfulness to bear on the cityscape of Berlin itself – or, more specifically, its former East. On Kollwitzstraße, Majakowskiring and Puschkinallee, Tawada conjures a series of ghostly encounters with the past, present and supernatural possibilities of our history-heavy city. This klein aber fein addition to Tawada’s oeuvre, translated elegantly by Margaret Mitsutani, compresses plenty of its author’s trademark offbeat brilliance into a pleasingly short format." -- Alexander Wells - Exberliner"Each ‘street’ in the volume, translated by Margaret Mitsutani, is both charming and unnerving...This may well be Tawada’s finest work, partly because of how moving it is when someone capable of so much wit knows when to be reverent. A perfect story." -- J.W. McCormack - The New Left Review
£12.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Woman Who Killed the Fish
Book SynopsisFour beguiling tales for children of all ages. A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s geniusTrade Review"Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and Joyce." -- Los Angeles Times"Better than Borges." -- Elizabeth Bishop"Readers will delight in this short collection of luminous, laugh-out-loud stories from the late Brazilian cult writer Lispector…Though the author wrote these stories for her son when he was a child, and they often contain magic and lack in explanations, their small delights nonetheless rank high among Lispector’s impressive body of work. In between the lines of these spellbinding worlds, she offers indelible glimpses of the way people live and dream. Even amid the silliest of scenarios are glimmers of the beauty of the everyday: “That’s how life went on. Gently, gently.” This is one to savor. " -- Publishers Weekly"Bought pets, animals must either conform to our anthropomorphic lens or, as “uninvited natural creatures,” remain too repellent to merit our sympathy. The title story’s sly narrator implicates both herself and the reader, by justifying the fatal neglect of her son’s fish on her all-consuming work as a fiction writer." -- Thuy Dinh - National Public Radio"A writer of formidable modernist pedigree, it is something of a relief to find her working in a chatty, mischievous mode and concerned with that most storybook of subjects, the ‘intimate life’ of animals." -- J.W. McCormack - The New Left Review"The Brazilian writer’s work has had a recent public resurgence; we have been wowed as we discover or rediscover her writing by her seemingly pragmatic approach to the page, and by her characters, who appear confident in themselves and their thoughts even though, perhaps, they really aren’t." -- Miyako Pleines - Ploughshares
£12.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Early Light
Book SynopsisEarly Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer HumanTrade Review"I like Dazai a lot." -- Wong Kar-Wai"Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful." -- The New York Times Book Review"It is here that themes explored throughout the series – identity’s abnegation under the weight of art and history, the attendant wish for an alternative that fails to arrive – appear in their most unvarnished form." -- J.W. McCormack - The New Left Review"[An] impressive demonstration of Dazai’s psychological insight." -- Andrew Martin - The New York Times
£12.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Francisco
Book SynopsisA lost masterpiece of American literature about the creative evolution of a young Black woman in California and her intense relationship with an indie filmmakerTrade Review"Mills Newman has done the rare thing: written with beauty, power, and purity about a woman." -- Toni Morrison"When blackness, then and now, is so burdened with pain, it is a blessing to find a story of black lovers, written by a woman learning to love herself as she falls in love with Francisco." -- Harryette Mullen
£11.39
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Setting Sun
Book SynopsisNow in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literatureTrade Review"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." -- Yukio Mishima"From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant." -- Yasunari Kawabata"Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful." -- The New York Times Book Review
£18.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Caretaker
Book SynopsisA lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of thingsTrade Review"Arbus’s writing is uniformly tight and focused, rendered with a light, amusing touch. The Jamesian quality of her prose extends to the book’s pleasantly gothic atmosphere, reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw...The Caretaker is an enigmatic and necessary book, especially for those conflicted about the physical detritus accumulated over the course of a life." -- Ploughshares"Doon Arbus’s beautiful, moving, original novel does just what we want a novel to do: It creates a fictional world that reflects, illuminates and reveals the ‘real’ world we live in. This wryly funny, subversively philosophical book is brief—yet deep enough to contain humans and objects, love and death, memory and amnesia, oblivion and survival. It generates its own musical score: a phrase of Satie, a few notes of the Well-Tempered Clavier, and then the Beethoven sonata" -- Francine Prose"Doon Arbus' debut novel is a kind of mystery--about who we become, what the absent leave us with, and why. Dense, visual, and true, this short book speaks volumes about the theatre of the mind, and how the ensuing comedic drama we call life unfolds inside and outside our control. A marvelous new voice." -- Hilton Als
£12.34
Globe Pequot Press Rolling Back the River
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£19.76
Random House Publishing Group Caribbean
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£15.29
Random House USA Inc The Betrothed
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£14.39
Random House Publishing Group Poland
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united, at others tragically divided. With an inspiring tradition of resistance to brutal invaders, from the barbarians to the Nazis, and a heritage of pride that burns through eras of romantic passion and courageous solidarity, their common story reaches a breathtaking culmination in the historic showdown between the ruthless Communists and rebellious farmers of the modern age. Like the heroic land that is its subject, Poland teems with vivid events, unforgettable characters, and the unfolding drama of an entire nation. Praise for Poland “Engrossing . . . a page-turner in the grand Michener tradition.”—The Washington Post “A Michene
£15.29
Random House Publishing Group Sisi Empress on Her Own
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sweeping historical novel that tells the dramatic story of Sisi, the empress of Austria-Hungary who fought for her family, her people, and her empire in a changing world“Irresistible—completely impossible to put down . . . Allison Pataki reimagines the reign of the nineteenth-century Princess Diana in this stunning book.”—Michelle Moran, bestselling author of Rebel Queen Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth—fondly known as Sisi—captures the hearts of her people as their “fairy queen,” but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz not only with imperial waltzes and champagne but with temptations, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue. Feeling stifled by strict protocols and a turbulent marriage, Sisi finds solace at her estate outside Budapest,
£13.49
Random House USA Inc The Spectators A Novel
Book SynopsisA shocking crime triggers a media firestorm for a controversial talk show host in this provocative novel—a story of redemption, a nostalgic portrait of New York City, and a searing indictment of our culture of spectacle.One of the The New York Times’s “10 Books to Watch for in April” • “Jennifer duBois is a brilliant writer.”—Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society, exposing them on live television in front of millions of gawking viewers. However, the man behind The Mattie M Show remains a mystery—both to his enormous audience and to those who work alongside him every day. But when the high school students responsible for a mass shooting are found to be devoted fans, Mattie is thrust into the glare of public scrutiny,
£16.88
Random House Publishing Group Same Bed Different Dreams
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£23.75
The University Press of Kentucky At The Breakers
Book SynopsisIn her novel At The Breakers, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall presents Jo Sinclair, a longtime single mother of four children. Fleeing an abusive relationship after a shocking attack, Jo finds herself in Sea Cove, New Jersey, in front of The Breakers, a salty old hotel in the process of renovation. Impulsively, she negotiates a job painting the guest rooms and settles in with her youngest child, thirteen-year-old Nick. As each room is transformed under brush and roller, Jo finds a way to renovate herself, reclaiming a promising life derailed by pregnancy and a forced marriage at age fourteen. At The Breakers is a deeply felt and beautifully written novel about forgiveness and reconciliation. In Jo''s words, she is trying to find the right way to live as a long-suffering woman who is put through the fire and emerges with a chance at a full, rich life for herself and her children, if only she has the faith to take it.
£14.40
University of Virginia Press The Burial and Other Short Prose 19631994
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£18.04
Syracuse University Press From a Distant Relation
Book SynopsisWith enchanting humor, social satire, and verbal dexterity, From a Distant Relation captures the world of the shtetl in a sharp realist prose style. Themes of repressed desire, poverty, relations with non-Jews, and historic upheavals echo in a cast of memorable characters.
£24.71
Church Publishing Julians Cat
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£14.24
Little, Brown & Company Odes to Common Things
Book SynopsisPinpointing the virtues of such items as soap and a tomato, this selection fr the Nobel Prizes-winning poet contains twenty-five of his odes, each accompanied by an English translation and two pencil drawings.
£19.00
University of Pittsburgh Press The Islands Six Fictions Drue Heinz Prize
Book SynopsisIn this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides.
£15.32
Holiday House Inc Middle School Bites 3 Out for Blood
Book SynopsisTom the Vam-Wolf-Zom is back--and so is the werewolf that bit him--in this monstrously funny series about a boy who''s dying to fit in.Eleven-year-old Tom was bit by a vampire, a werewolf, and a zombie right before the first day of middle school. It was a weird and crazy day. And he didn''t even get excused from sixth grade!Now he''s being hunted down by the werewolf that bit him. Should Tom join a wolf pack? On the one hand, he could give up school and homework forever. (He really doesn''t want to do his history report.) On the other hand, he''d miss his band, his friends, and Annie, his maybe-possibly-someday girlfriend. He might even miss his big sister, Emma.Then the vampire that bit him returns with a warning: the werewolf is dangerous. Perhaps Tom should stick with sixth grade--even if it''s mostly talent show disappointments, detention, and chicken-turkey-salami-roast beef sandwiches. Created by an Emmy-nominated writer for SpongeBob, Th
£10.44
Holiday House Inc Jerry Let Me See the Moon
Book SynopsisThings get squirrely when Jerry discovers that his new town is a sanctuary for were-creatures, humans who turn into animals when the moon is full, in an action-packed romp for younger middle grade readers.Jerry has serious questions about the town his scientist father drags him to: why did they give up traveling the world to settle down in such a strange spot? Why won?t his dad talk about his mysterious research or explain what happened to his mother, who disappeared years ago? And when he sees his friend Pearl transform into a were-squirrel under the light of the full moon, he needs to know: were exactly has he ended up?But when criminal mayhem turns Jerry?s town?a safe haven for were-creatures?into a not-so-safe haven, Jerry must uncover a twisty conspiracy and take down the instigators who are trying to tear the place that?s become his home apart.Packed with twists and turns and filled with vivid black-and-white drawings, Kraken Me Up author Jeffrey Ebbeler?s experience as a comics artist translates into dynamic, visual action sequences that even the most reluctant readers won?t have to fight their way through. Larger-than-life bad guys and slapstick humor meets a heartfelt exploration of what makes a place home in this page-turner that will leave younger middle grade readers howling for more.
£15.29
Holiday House The Supernatural Files of CJ Delaney
Book SynopsisPossessed dogs, missing livestock...summer is off to a very strange start in Galahad, Ohio. Luckily, CJ Delaney is on the case.When a boring old skatepark opening becomes the scene of a seemingly supernatural occurrence, CJ Delaney can’t believe her luck. This is just the kind of big story she’s dreamed of breaking. Especially this summer, when she’s interning at the local paper that’s run by none other than legendary reporter Countess Jewel “Conti” Delaney aka CJ’s grandmother.With best friend Parker in tow, CJ is determined to get to the bottom of everything and save the town from evil. Isn’t this what summer vacation is for? But when all answers point to someone close, CJ stands not only to lose her byline but the scariest thing of all—the people and pet she loves.With a strong, snappy voice and a warm sense of humor, The Supernatural Files of CJ Delaney is a fast-paced middle grade mystery (
£13.59
Beaufort Books The Eighteenth Green
Book Synopsis2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards FinalistWho was Harold Spencer? All D.C. Lawyer Jack Patterson knew was that Spencer's dead body had been found on the 18th Green of Columbia Country Club, cancelling Jack's Saturday golf game. Who is Rachel Goodman? Her name has been plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country for weeks, branded as a thief of confidential info vital to U.S. National Security and a spy for Israel. She is also the daughter of Jack's long-time friend and mentor, Ben Jennings. Despite the opposition, Jack feels compelled to defend Rachel. He goes to work against the government, the all-powerful military-industrial complex, most of the press and Congress, all of whom are convinced that Rachel is guilty and should receive the death penalty for her treason.Clovis Jones, Jack's friend, is the victim of a vicious attack. The more Jack digs, the more complicated and dangerous his work becomes. Even a volunteer group of Navy SEALs may not be enou
£12.71
Kregel Publications Hero Debut A Novel
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£12.59
Thomas Nelson Publishers The American Queen
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£10.44
Thomas Nelson Publishers Behind Enemy Bylines
£10.44
Thomas Nelson Publishers Wildflower Falls
Book SynopsisHe’s here to train her horses, and then he’s moving on. She’s keeping her true identity a secret. But their spark complicates both of their plans.When her mother’s death leaves Charlotte Simpson bereft, she hopes the Robinson clan will accept her as one of their own and help fill the void. But a startling discovery dashes her hopes and leaves her wondering if she will ever know the father she’s always longed for.Horse trainer Gunner Dawson has experienced profound loss and intends to avoid it. So he lives on the move without forming close bonds or putting down roots. When Charlotte hires him to work with her horses and help expand her ranch, he commits to staying for a few months. But he doesn’t count on getting caught up in Charlotte’s search for her biological father. Or on falling in love—with Riverbend Gap or with Charlotte. This time, he’s not sure if he’ll be able to move on—or if
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Love Unscripted
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