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
Ringwood Publishing The The Bruces Treasure
£9.49
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Little Patti Empath
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£10.44
Barbican Press When I Was
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£12.34
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers A Migrants Dilemma
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£13.99
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers 2050 A Warning
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£7.59
Text Publishing American Mermaid
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£10.79
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Interview with the Tarot Reader
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£8.54
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Rain Tests The Return
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£7.59
Amazon Publishing A Scattered Life
Book Synopsis“McQuestion writes with a sharp eye and a sure voice, and as a reader, I was willing to go wherever she wanted to take me.” —Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel Free spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in her reliable husband, Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and mother, Skyla finds life in rural Wisconsin satisfying, but she can’t seem to quell her growing sense of restlessness. Skyla’s only reprieve is her growing friendship with neighbor Roxanne, who has five kids (and counting) and a life in constant disarray—but also a life filled with laughter and love. Much to the dismay of her intrusive mother-in-law, Audrey, Skyla takes a part-time job at the local bookstore and slowly begins to rediscover her voice, independence, and confidence. Throughout one pivotal year in the life of Skyla, Audrey, and Roxanne, all three very different women will learn what it means to love unconditionally. With the storytelling ingenuity of Anne Tyler, the writing talent of Jodi Picoult, and the subtlety of Alice Munro, McQuestion offers a satisfying debut that proves she is a gifted portraitist, a natural storyteller, and an author to watch.
£8.09
ACA Publishing Limited Mutual Strangers
Book SynopsisIn these tales of bite-sized misdeeds, the boys of Nanjing's underground literati spend their nights freewheeling and trying their luck with girls amid a haze of cigarette smoke and cheap beer. When trouble brews and dates turn sour, their only real solace is an unspoken male camaraderie. As the years roll on, maybe the joke will be on them
£14.39
Everyman Golf Stories
Book SynopsisHere are literary classics by such golf-loving writers as P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, and John Updike, mixed with surprises like an appearance by Ian Fleming's James Bond and a little crime on the links from mystery master Ian Rankin. Humorists and sportswriters ranging from E. C. Bentley to Dan Jenkins and Rick Reilly weigh in as well, alongside a tale of romance on the greens from F. Scott Fitzgerald, a little-known gem by famous golf architect A. W. Tillinghast, and a story by Rex Lardner (Ring's nephew) that just may be the single funniest thing ever written about golf. The resulting anthology is as enticing, provocative, and entertaining as the game of golf itself.
£10.99
Dzanc Books The River The Town
Book SynopsisA poignant and powerful first novel following the breakup of a Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their indefatigable search for stability, love, and belonging.In the rural town in Pakistan where Baadal grows up, children are named like talismans to sustain life and ward off unhappiness. At seventeen, Baadal has come to understand why his parents gave him that name, with hopes that their Big River will one day flow wide again, and their thirst will be quenched after years of drought. But in the final year of his schooling, abundance seems impossibly far away. As his parents’ marriage—full of rage, despair, and often violence—reaches a breaking point, the only comfort Baadal can afford is a budding kinship with Meena, a divorced older woman he meets on the banks of the drying river.Meena has only just escaped her abusive husband, but her resistance to remarry soon gives way to the promise of stability and companion
£12.34
Canongate Books Man on Ice
Book SynopsisCaptain Rake Ozenna of the elite Eskimo Scouts unit and his fiancee, trauma surgeon Carrie Walker, are at his remote home island in the Bering Strait when Russian helicopters swarm in. As news breaks of a possible invasion, Ozenna realizes that the only way to save his Alaskan island community is to undertake a perilous mission across the ice.
£12.99
New Island Books Writers Anonymous
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1980, a lonely boy is found murdered in the graveyard of his quiet fishing town. Forty years later, a writer finds himself forced to confront the one story he's refused all his life to tell.
£13.49
Dzanc Books Bloomland
Book SynopsisWinner of the VCU Cabell First Novel AwardWinner of the 2018 Dzanc Prize for FictionAn Indies Introduce PickA Kirkus Best Books of 2019 selectionSpanning two decades, Bloomland examines the social roots and community fallout of a shooting at a fictional southern university. As the narrative moves between the lives of a disillusioned student, a grieving professor, and the shooter himself, the psyches and stories of each character blend and intersect, ultimately asking us to rethink American myths of selfhood, grief, and violence as a redemptive act. Profound and deeply nuanced, Bloomland is a dazzling debut that walks in step with the novels of Garth Greenwell, Rachel Kushner, and Louise Erdrich.
£12.34
Everyman Moll Flanders
Book SynopsisBorn in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll''s drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief (''the greatest Artist of my time'') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate.If Moll Flanders is on one level a Puritan''s tale of sin and repentance, through self-made, self-reliant Moll its rich subtext conveys all the paradoxes and amoralities of the struggle for property and power in Defoe''s newly individualistic society.
£10.44
Everyman The Wings Of The Dove
Book SynopsisIn this extraordinary variation on the theme of the eternal triangle, Henry James contrasts two women who love one man: the magnificent but ambitious and unscrupulous Kate Croy, and the fragile heiress Millie Theale whose early death precipitates the story's surprising outcome. Together with THE GOLDEN BOWL and THE AMBASSADORS, this novel completes a celebrated trilogy in which James explores his perennial themes of love and renunciation with all the strength, drama and subtlety of a very great writer at the height of his powers. The book is published to coincide with the film starring Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Rampling and Alison Elliot.
£12.89
Everyman Dombey And Son
Book SynopsisOne of Dicken's great middle period novels, in which fairy tale, melodrama and realism mingle with halluncinatory power, DOMBEY AND SON weaves together a number of stories which centre upon the family of the self-important merchant, Paul Dombey, and his children Paul and Florence. Supplied with the usual extraordinary cast of Dickensian grotesques, both comic and sinister, the novel also boasts a wonderful villain, in the person of Mr Carker, who tries to seduce Florence and meets his death under a train - the first such death in literary history.
£13.49
Forest Avenue Press No God Like the Mother
Book SynopsisWinner of the Oregon Book Award for Fiction. Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher's No God Like the Mother follows characters in transition, through tribulation and hope. Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in Paris, and the rain-washed suburbs of the Pacific Northwest--this collection of nine stories is a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty.Trade Review"No God Like the Mother is the sort of story collection that comes along very rarely--honest, precise, and meticulous in its emotional and physical detail. These globe-spanning stories--so often set at the intersection of nurture and abandonment, of intimacy and great emptying distance--are each a pristine act of storytelling, an immersion. Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher is a brilliant new talent, and No God Like the Mother the beginning of an equally brilliant literary career." –Omar El Akkad, author of American War “Kesha Ajọsẹ Fisher is a talented new writer who debuts with this impressive short story collection that will touch your soul with stories that are both tender and heartbreaking.” –Heidi W. Durrow, New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky"No God Like the Mother is the kind of book my soul craves--these stories are gorgeously rendered, poetic and sure handed, but more than Fisher's abundant talent, there lies on each page the thing that can never be invented or taught, and it is simply this: absolute heart. With a seer's eye, Fisher examines themes of motherhood from angles that feel in equal measure compelling, startling, and downright beautiful." –Chelsea Bieker, author of Godshot
£11.39
Chiselbury Publishing The Don't Make Them Like That Any More
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the earthy and likeable proprietor of Aristo Autos who deals in vintage cars - not forgetting Sara, supercharged with sexual promise. ln the process of becoming a reluctant hero, he spins across France, Spain and Switzerland, on the track of a rare Mercedes too badly wanted by too many dangerous men.
£7.99
Barbican Press Virgin & Child
Book SynopsisPatrick, the first Irish Pope, is sure of many things: his faith, the sanctity of life, that he is a man, that he is celibate.Then all he's held true is cast into doubt.How can he act as the moral heart of the church when his convictions falter and his secrets threaten to destroy all he's achieved? Catholicism and modern morality are held in tension, and Pope Patrick must make once unimaginable choices. When the truth begins to emerge, the Vatican wants him silenced. The Pope’s sheltered existence becomes a race of life and death.Trade Review'This literary thriller is not your average whodunnit, but rather a modern morality suspense story with an unexpected twist… A compelling alternative papal mystery.' - Elizabeth Fitzherbert, The Lady'Hamand goes on to relate a tale so humanely, so movingly and with such authorial depth and deftness that the reader would have to be a saint not to read it through in one enormous sitting… beautifully written and utterly transgressive.' - Paul Simon, The Morning Star'This Vatican thriller is beautifully written with some extraordinary twists and turns.' - Jane Corry, Sidmouth Herald'Maggie Hamand… invokes thriller tropes, mixing them with science fiction-style speculation, journalistic observation and lyrical descriptions.' - Michèle Roberts, The Tablet 'Lively and sympathetic… expertly, she convinces us to the point where we willingly suspend disbelief.' - Caroline Bowder, Church Times'A surprisingly realistic and robust exploration of the church's view on femininity, abortion, the body, love and more… clever and intriguing.' - Niamh Donnelly, The Irish Times'This is a strange and strangely touching novel and it is also written with great elegance and authority. It tackles head on some of the most challenging issues for the Roman Catholic Church around gender and sexuality and at the same time has some of the loveliest, most persuasive, writing about personal prayer that I have ever encountered in fiction.' - Sara Maitland, author of A Book Of Silence'Beautifully written, its articulate and compassionate… Thought provoking and unputdownable.' Lesley Budge, The Bookwormery'The most conceptually striking novel I've read this year… nothing short of genius.' - Julie Ryan, All Things Bookie'Strangely moving and intensely thoughtful…' - Joules Barham, Northern Reader'Part thriller, part mystery, part who-dun-it… a truly original story.' - Angela Crowther, Promoting Crime Fiction'Virgin & Child is a fantasy, but meticulous research, liturgical and anatomical, persuades us to accept it is based on facts.' - Gwen Moffat, Shots'Lyrical and full of philosophical questions' - Madeleine Shakespeare, Ramblingmads
£8.99
Alternative Comics Savage World of Tony Lorenz
Book SynopsisVikings, wizards, reanimated skeletons, street gangs, teen arcades, mystic swords and haunted jewels meld perfectly in this DIY saga that captures the exuberance of limitless adolescent daydreams.Welcome to the fantastical, mind-bending and wholesomely Savage World of Tony Lorenz, the cult cartoonist who worked during the height of the indie ‘80s black-and-white comics boom and brought-to-life the hit first issue of the acutely offbeat comic series JONTAR.Together with his high-school classmate, Tony Lorenz co-created the ambitious 124-page fantasy-adventure SAVAGE WORLD, chronicling the exploits of sailors Slick and Jimi, who after being engulfed by a mysterious fog are transported to a prehistoric dimension. The aesthetic friction of a maritime fable rendered unintentionally in the style of 80s punk flyers propels what was once rejected as woefully amateur into rediscovered outsider art for the new millennium.Along with several other curated works collected in this expansive volume, THE SAVAGE WORLD OF TONY LORENZ is a celebration of the untrained and unrestrained, with many of these cosmic creations hitting print for the very first time ever!Enter a world where politics means nothing, a world where wizards and churches reign supreme, a world where men live for the adventure, welcome to—The Savage WorldBattlin'' Ram is breaking into action and you don''t want to miss it!Night Stalker - A mysterious caped hero swings among the skyscrapers of Seattle. He is not known yet, but in a very short time people will know his eerie name.
£22.49
Renard Press Ltd Where Snowbirds Play
Book SynopsisWas it pure chance that he had run into her so soon? Philip had never believed in destiny, and his father had believed in nothing but his own genius. And yetFrom the moment recent Oxford graduate Philip takes the helm of a new marine life institute in Palm Beach, his presence revives old feuds and sparks rivalries among the wealthy resident snowbirds, many of whom have invested heavily in a biotech company soon to be exposed for insider trading. It quickly becomes clear that Philip's quest for atonement on the behalf of his father will embroil many of the community's most prominent members.Interwoven with snippets of real-life drama from an insider-trading scandal,Where Snowbirds Playpaints a compelling portrait of the lives of the privileged, and what happens when their world is turned upside down.
£9.50
Atlantic Books We Are Together Because
Book SynopsisLuke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father''s house in the south of France. The boys don''t really know him, and they don''t really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going of the four, is keen to bring a new shape to their overlapping, unconventional family; Connor and Thea, born just six months apart but a world of difference between them, are struggling to hide their attraction to each other; Violet, the youngest, is trying to figure some things out about herself, and trying desperately to forget others. Sex in all its multiple forms is on the minds of the siblings during the hot, lethargic summer days spent next to the pool, but the land around them is starting to respond to something inexplicable and eerie. Animals begin to act strangely. There is a buzzing sound that only Connor can hear, and when Violet one night sees a plane light abruptly disappear in the sky, it signals the beginning of something that threatens so much more than their turbulent holiday.With considerable power and unfolding revelation, We Are Together Because starts as a sensual summer drama and very quickly becomes about our own survival, asking us what is truly important in life, and how far we''ve strayed from our place in a more fluid, vibrant, natural world.
£9.49
Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC Jordan Version 3.2
Book SynopsisIf you knew a dark secret about the one you love, something they don’ t even know, would you keep it from them? Or would you tell them?When a young man wakes in the middle of the ocean, he has no memory. His ability to read has been erased. The cryptic words “ Anag. Norisis, Inc.” written on his life jacket are beyond his comprehension.He discovers a raft rigged with hidden cameras and survives to reach an island whose inhabitants have formed two tribes. Determined to learn who he is and who put him on the island, he befriends reclusive Aleah who tells him she’ s lived alone for years. He suspects she’ s withholding some deeper truth from him. But why?Drawn together by desire and danger, he and Aleah overthrow the island’ s brutal leader in order to escape. Only once they discover the mainland, everything he’ s learned about himself is turned upside down. The world they’ d hoped to find has become something unimaginable, and in that world, their love will face its ultimate test.An epic love story of truth and survival, Jordan Version 3.2 challenges us to consider the essence of our passions, the power of language in shaping who we are, and the nature of what it means to be human.
£13.56
New Island Books Mrs. Whippy
Book SynopsisPart of the "Open Door" series, this is a fiction title.
£7.82
Transworld Publishers Ltd Clinical Intimacy
Book Synopsis'A truly original literary mystery . . . A humane work that really seeks to understand Like the best really serious novels, it's profoundly uncomfortable, avoids easy dramatic answers and forces you to really think and question yourself as much as its own narrative' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition---S was a good person. Such a good person. They all told me that so it had to be true. S is unique. It seems that most people think so his mother, his sister, his best friend, but relative strangers too. In fact, they and others all have much to say in the inquiry into S. When prompted, when the tape recorder in front of them clicks, a succession of family, friends and professional contacts in turn describe his shapeshifting charisma. All struggle to account for the enigmatic figure who has wandered through their lives, doing some good things and some bad. Yet as they talk, it becomes apparent that they are not so much telling his story, as they are their own of their common need for love, touch, retribution, closure. Together, their tissue of voices reveal the complexity of care. In a series of intimate snapshots charting the relations of one ordinary yet extraordinary man, Clinical Intimacy explores the emotional conditions and moral consequences of a life lived in service of satisfying others.
£9.49
Sagging Meniscus Press Lake of Urine: A Love Story
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£11.69
Troubador Publishing Back for Good
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£9.49
Bookouture The Perfect Nurse
Book Synopsis'My name is Darcy, I'm your nurse. I'm here to help you.' I repeat the words I've said so many times. Except this time, I don't mean it... If you saw me, you'd think I was pretty ordinary - I wear a crisp, white nursing uniform, my hands are scrubbed clean and you'd have no reason to believe I was anything other than a good citizen. A good nurse. But looks can be deceiving. You shouldn't trust me - because I don't even know if I can trust myself. Now I stare in the mirror - dark smudges under my eyes and blood on my hands - listening for the sound of police sirens. Because the truth is I had to do something terrible. I broke all the rules a nurse should follow. And now someone is dead... An utterly page-turning psychological thriller from the number one bestselling author of The Doctor's Wife. If you loved Behind Closed Doors, Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train then The Perfect Nurse will have you flipping the pages until the breath-taking final pages. What readers are saying about The Perfect Nurse:'Absolutely gripping and addictive... I couldn't put it down!... A thrilling ride from start to finish... Kept me on the edge of my seat... I was hooked... Excellent... Flawless... Electrifying and unforgettable!' Goodreads reviewer, ?????'WOW!... Had my jaw on the floor... Made me gasp out loud. I could not put this book down... I just HAD to know what was going to happen... A must-read... Completely blew my mind... A WILD ride!' Goodreads reviewer, ?????'Talk about binge worthy!... I was literally on the edge of the sofa with my heart racing.... GULP! I just had to keep on reading... I kept saying to myself 'one more page'. Next, it's lights out and it's 4am!... What a wild ride!... l loved every minute... Wowser!' coffeeandpages2021, ?????'Absolutely jaw-dropping... WOW!' Goodreads reviewer, ?????'HOLD THE FRONT PAGE! This is my FAVOURITE Daniel Hurst book to date! Absolutely fantastic!... So many absolutely jaw-dropping moments, that snatched my breath away as the tension built to an explosive finale. Just. WOW!I cannot WAIT for the next one in this brilliant new series.' Goodreads reviewer, ?????'So addictive and compelling made me want more and more I loved the plot twists and the twists unexpected!! Highly recommend I loved this book!! I binged in one day! So shocking and the cliffhanger twist at the END!!!! You need to read this!!!!' Goodreads reviewer, ?????'WOW... Boy, I am shocked but the best kind of shocked! It was absolutely amazing!... This book blew me away and I finished it in 24 hours, I couldn't put it down!... A fast-paced psychological thriller that has you on the edge of your seat and you might think you know the how the story will go but you will be so wrong!' Goodreads reviewer, ?????'Had me hooked immediately! Absolutely fantastic! Constant twists and turns. I just didn't want to put this down until I knew how it ended. Daniel is definitely my favourite author!' Goodreads reviewer, ?????'I devoured this book... Wowza, did it slap me in the face!... Starts with a bang and doesn't slow down until the end. The plot continues to build at a rapidly terrifying pace and then comes the free-fall plot twist that will leave you speechless!' KKEC Reads, ?????
£9.49
Imbrifex Books Scarecrow Has a Gun: A Novel
Book SynopsisNever trust other people's memories, and watch out for your ownSean Whittlesea was there when his wife was murdered. He saw the light leave her eyes. He held her dead body in his arms. He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his imagination serves up an endless chain of scenarios. The truth, however, remains hidden in the vault of his memory, and the key is nowhere to be found. Nearly two decades later, Sean, now remarried and a father of two, wins a bizarre contest hosted by his eccentric boss. The prize is the Memory Palace, a state-of-the-art black box that purportedly allows its possessor to relive every moment he has ever experienced, playing out all the memories on a screen.While the small machine at first appears to be the answer to the mystery surrounding the death of his wife, it instead upends Sean’s life. He pushes his family further and further away as the Memory Palace forces him to confront harsh realities and difficult questions that he lacks the strength to face or answer. Spiraling downward, Sean encounters increasingly harrowing challenges that force him to realize that his memory is not the only thing at stake. To recover the truth about his past, Sean must fight for his very life.Trade Review"Suffused with an atmosphere that suggests J.G. Ballard and Paolo Coelho chained together in a basement while a carbon monoxide alarm goes off, Scarecrow Has a Gun is at once disquieting and illuminating, eerie and sincere.”—Martin Seay, award-winning author of The Mirror Thief“An intriguing, existential mystery, an exploration of an unhappy marriage, and a paranoid science fiction thriller. Scarecrow Has a Gun is positively Neapolitan!”—Nick Mamatas, author of The Second Shooter“Michael Paul Kozlowsky’s brutally eccentric Scarecrow Has a Gun is a masterclass in Cartesian storytelling—simultaneously evoking Christopher Nolan’s clockwork precision and JG Ballard’s ultra-modern sense of irony.”— Jeff Chon, author of Hashtag Good Guy With a Gun“Scarecrow Has a Gun is a propulsive read that spirals deep into the intersections of memory, technology, and the shifting boundaries between the real and the unreal."— Nicholas Rombes, author of The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing and The Ramones’ Ramones"A whodunit wrapped inside sci-fi story and blended with a compelling and clear-eyed examination of how memory works."— Brett Riley, author of Comanche, Lord of Order, and Freaks"With writing that's both sharp and dense, Michael Paul Kozlowsky's Scarecrow Has A Gun is a labyrinthine mystery that feels as if David Cronenberg and Don DeLillo had collaborated on a Philip K. Dick adaptation. It's a gut-punch meditation on the way our brains process mediation, memory, trauma, and grief."—Tex Gresham, author of Sunflower, Heck, Texas, and This Is Strange June"This engrossing and inventive novel entertains on multiple levels. It’s a mind-bending mystery, in which the pursuit of the truth about his wife’s murder threatens the main character’s trust in his powers of perception and his very sense of self. It’s a horror-show-worthy take on corporate ambition, overreach, and villainy."—Beth Castrodale, author of I Mean You No Harm, Marion Hatley and In This Ground“What an original and captivating sci-fi read! I totally loved the real life references and often found myself so intrigued I had to then go search for confirmation and further information. Things really ramped up towards the end and I was glued to the text. I enjoyed the dark undercurrent and found the ending deeply satisfying as well as super clever.”—Caroline Lewis, Librarian at St. Jospeh’s College Mildura
£15.19
Troubador Publishing Ltd Outline of a Hero
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£9.49
Olympia Publishers A Forbidden Love For Fire The Knight is Dark
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£12.59
not a cult LLC Colors
Book Synopsis"The most elegant of all art critic cowboys” —Spike Art MagazineColor beams at us from the everyday, but within each of the ten million shades are hidden our best and worst stories. Colors is a collection of lush short stories about the many different shades that make up our lives. Berardini guides us through a spectrum of vignettes, weaving inspiration from Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Bowie’s Sound and Vision, arriving at color’s fundamental intersection with who we are and how we live.Trade Review"The most elegant of all art critic cowboys” —Spike Art Magazine"Unusually unhelpful." —Los Angeles Times
£15.52
Olympia Publishers A War of Secrets Hardback
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£13.49
McNally Jackson Books Nocturnes for the King of Naples
Book SynopsisThe letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times)“Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a series of late-night letters, gorgeous, funny, filled with memory, sensuality, and regret, a seducer calls across the years to the great love of his youth: an older, revered expatriate known, in his adoptive city, as the King of Naples. As the narrator evokes their affair, in scenes of beauty and remorse, his memories range over the men who came after and before, especially the seductive father who still haunts his erotic imagination. First published in 1978, before the trilogy of frankly autobiographical novels that made him famous, Nocturnes for the King of Naples reveals Edmund White at his most poetic, playful, and evocative, a mag
£14.39
Olympia Publishers Habracadabrah
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£9.49
The Book Guild Ltd You Cant Take My Name
Book SynopsisIn this desolate land stripped of life and hope, a twelve-year-old boy has, against all odds, spent the last decade surviving alone. His name is the only constant he clings toa fragile thread that ties him to his identity. When a fateful encounter with an old man challenges his solitude, an unlikely bond begins to form, redefining what it means to live rather than merely exist. The boy faces a choice: risk companionship or cling to the survival rules his brother taught him years ago. But the harsh reality of survival tears the boy's world apart once again, plunging him into the merciless grip of The Centrean organisation that strips him of his humanity. As the now-teenager endures unimaginable loss and pain, he grapples with questions of identity, love, and what it truly means to be human. With everything on the line, a chance of escape sparks hope. Led by a mysterious figure who stirs feelings the teenager has no words for, together, they risk everything for a future that may not exist. Do they dare to defy despair with the fragile power of hope?
£9.49
Brandylane Publishers, Inc. Once Upon a Fable
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£15.19
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Poetic Justice
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£8.54
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Symmetries Book 3 Elemental Symmetry
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£8.54
BHC Press Whiteland
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£16.46
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Chronicles of a Time Travelling Teacher The
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£10.44
Troubador Publishing Ltd So Anyway
Book SynopsisA collection of humorous short stories, all told in the vernacular. Will do for North London what Damon Runyon did for New York and Broadway.
£9.49
Cune Press,US The Dusk Visitor: Stories from Syria
Book SynopsisA collection of 36 short stories from a Raqqa, Syria native whose home was commandeered by ISIS and later destroyed by coalition airstrikes.Musa Al-Halool developed these stories based on a sense of embitterment toward the Syrian regime. Now, after his country has fallen from the grips of an obtuse and rigidly bureaucratic state into the uncertainties of war . . . he presents his stories as the response of one still-same voice in the midst of madness.Musa Al-Halool’s stories depict a Kafkaesque Middle Eastern world. The collection opens with eight political fables in a chapter titled Ratistan . . . or the country of Rats. These fables introduce themes which are picked up and developed in the later stories or simply serve as counterpoint to the longer pieces.The Dusk Visitor is an object lesson for Western readers. In just a few words, it invokes the warnings of Ernest Hemingway about the dangers of Fascism in 1920s Italy and the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s . . . that resulted in WWII. The author shows in compelling detail that Middle East dictators and the upside down world of security state rule in the Middle East are the reward for functioning civil societies where a few too many ”good people” find it more convenient to collaborate rather than to resist.Western readers, in their arrogance, are accustomed to pity such dysfunctional societies. In The Dusk Visitor, the tables are turned. Musa Al-Halool forces us to look in the mirror: Middle Eastern style comical inanity and inefficiency as well as torture, mass murder, and other human rights horrors are just around the corner for the EU, UK, US, and other societies where it is OK to raise half-truths, lies, and exaggeration above traditional journalism, dilute the judiciary, gerrymander the election system, usher in strongmen who prefer to be rulers for life, and threaten legal action against one’s political opponents.The Dusk Visitor is a MUST-READ for anyone concerned about the growth of subtle and overt fascism within modern civil society.
£8.99
Andrews UK Limited Tales from Soho
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£10.44
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Faranah Cowboy
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£9.49
Feminist Press at The City University of New York The Age of Goodbyes
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£12.34
