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
Cipher Press 100 Boyfriends
Book SynopsisTransgressive, foulmouthed, and wildly funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a filthy, unforgettable, and brutally profound ode to queer love in its most messy of variations. From one-night stands to recurring lovers, Purnell's characters sleep with their co-worker's husbands, expose themselves to racist neighbours, date Satanists, and drink their way out of trouble, all the while fighting - and often losing - the urge to self-sabotage. A horny, punk love song full of imperfect intimacies, 100 Boyfriends takes readers on a riotous journey through dirty warehouses and gentrified bars, from dysfunctional houseshares to desolate farming towns in Alabama. Drawing us into a community of glorious misfits living on the margins of a white supremacist, heteronormative society, iconoclastic storyteller Brontez Purnell gives us an uncompromising vision of desire, desperation, race, loneliness, and queerness that will devastate as much as it entertains.Trade Review"Each story in 100 Boyfriends is a minor eclipse: stunning in scope, technically blinding, and entirely miraculous. I laughed and I cried and I laughed until I cried— Brontez Purnell is a marvel." - Bryan Washington, author of Lot "Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a symphony of sex, trouble and wisdom - as if the composer had sex with each member of the orchestra by way of getting it right. An electric prismatic genre-defying punk literary flight, Purnell is twirling here -I loved every page." - Alexander Chee, author of How to Write An Autobiographical Novel “Brontez Purnell has such seemingly casual genius that at times you forget your reading a book and are transported to some couch/bus/basement where the drugs are really good and your friend is really funny, maybe your weird closeted cousin is on HarlemHookups in the corner, and all of a sudden your friend says some fucking Sappho ass, weird ass, brilliant ass bullshit. I love this slut of a book, it's a slut ass maker. 100 Boyfriends or no new boyfriends at all, Purnell's autofiction/memoir/whatever the hell this marvelously sad and intoxicating book is shook me up good with its honesty and blunt-to-face endings, the jokes and stories I didn't know we were allowed to tell outside of circles of faggots and misfits. But this book is in those circles, makes you tea and steals for you, it invites us in, but would we mind shutting the hell up cause it's a little hungover? The light is coming through the windows so clear." - Danez Smith, author of Homie
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Little, Brown Book Group Studies
Book Synopsis''MALORY TOWERS FOR GROWN-UPS'' SOPHIE KINSELLAJenny Colgan returns with all her signature charm in this fourth installment of her Maggie Adair series. The Little School by the Sea is a magical place of friendship, striving, excitement and plenty of mischief. Maggie Adair, the passionate, devoted English teacher at Downey House, is about to ride off into the sunset with her new love when tragedy strikes. Pulled from their happy-ever-after, she and David must put their budding romance aside until they return for a new term, unsure where they now stand.A fresh new year at Downey House comes with more drama from the students - with Fliss and Alice at odds after a summer apart, and Simone trying to nurture her new relationship while dealing with exam stresses, the new term is shaping up to be a challenge for all...''A BRILLIANT BOARDING SCHOOL BOOK, STUFFED FULL OF UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS AND THRILLING ADVENTURES'' LISA JEWELL
£9.49
Pushkin Press Beyond Sleep
Book SynopsisA young geologist hungry for fame journeys to the mountains of Norway's Arctic north on a research expedition, but soon realizes he's more likely be eaten alive by mosquitoes than win glory. Freezing, wet and plagued by insomnia, Alfred becomes increasingly desperate and paranoid under the midnight sun, until he takes a catastrophic decision. This dazzlingly dark classic is at once a gripping survival story, a mordant farce and a peerless evocation of mental disintegration.
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Sort of Books Theory Practice
Book Synopsis'A genre-busting inquiry into life and art, youth and Virginia Woolf' Guardian, Books to Look Forward to 2025'Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working today. She is startlingly, uncannily good at naming and facing what is most difficult and precious about our lives. Theory & Practice is a wonder' V.V. Ganeshananthan, Women's Prize-winning author of Brotherless Night'Theory & Practice blazes with intelligence, passion and wit. I devoured it, greedily, in a single glorious sitting' Sarah WatersIt's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda, she meets artists, activists, students - and Kit. He claims to be in a 'deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, a dismaying discovery throws her work on 'the Woolfmother' into disarray. Theory & Practice is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame. It makes and unmakes fiction as we read, expanding our notion of what a novel can contain. Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia's most celebrated writers, bends fiction, essay and memoir into exhilarating new shapes to uncover what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.
£12.34
Bookouture The Family Across the Street
Book SynopsisHow well do you know the people next door...? Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family are a perfect fit. Katherine and John West seem so in love, with their adorable five-year-old twins. But why don''t they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather than inviting you in? On the hottest day of the year, a tragedy unfolds behind closed doors. The dawn chorus is split by the wail of sirens. And the families who tried so hard to welcome the Wests realise: Hogarth Street will never be the same again.A completely gripping, twist-packed psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Sally Hepworth and Lisa Jewell.Readers love The Family Across the Street:''OMG!!! SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!!... The most heart-racing book I''ve rea
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British Library Publishing The Camomile
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Simon & Schuster Ltd The Hotel Avocado
Book SynopsisTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST CRIME & THRILLER BOOKS OF 2024'As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like nobody else, and this is a rollicking old-school yarn' The Guardian Mortimer's verbal specificity and off-kilter humour will keep his fans chuckling' The Times WARNING -this book includes: heavy crimes, car journeys, dreadfulness, large fruits, romance, planning applications, and a lot of pie. Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of his legal job in Peckham and eating pies with his next door neighbour, Grace and her dog Lassoo, or should he move to Brighton, where his girlfriend Emily is about to open The Hotel Avocado? Either way, he'd be letting someone down. But sinister forces are gathering in a cloud of launderette scented-vape smoke, and the arrival of the mysterious Mr Sequence puts Gary in an even worse predicament: soon he might be dead. All
£18.70
Canelo A Killer of Influence
Book SynopsisFollowing a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social media influencers vanish without a trace, leaving their followers and families in a state of shock, and the police clueless as to their whereabouts.And then, the livestreams begin.Broadcast live from their squalid underground cells, the young influencers are forced into a sadistic battle for survival.With each livestream, their captor pits them against each other in a twisted competition for likes. The influencer with the fewest positive reactions faces a gruesome end live on camera.As the likes increase and the death toll rises, DCI Jack Logan and his team must traverse both the Scottish wilderness and the darkest corners of the internet to try and save the remaining captives.But how do you catch a killer who is always one click ahead?
£13.49
Orion Publishing Co The Botanists Daughter
Book Synopsis''The whole book is a delight... Perfect reading whilst sipping a g & t in a beautiful garden somewhere in the sun!'' Rosanna LeyA buried secret... Present day: Anna is focused on growing her new gardening business and renovating her late grandmother''s house. But when she discovers a box hidden in a wall cavity, containing water colours of exotic plants, an old diary and a handful of seeds, she finds herself thrust into a centuries-old mystery. One that will send her halfway across the world to Kew Gardens and then onto Cornwall in search of the truth.A lady adventurer...1886: Elizabeth Trebithick is determined to fulfil her father''s dying wish and continue his life''s work as an adventurer and plant-hunter. So when she embarks on a perilous journey to discover a rare and miraculous flower, she will discover that the ultimate betrayal can be found even across the seas...Two women, separated by centuries. Can one myste
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Orion Publishing Co The Reader
Book SynopsisAn exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller.For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly, and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.''A tender, horrifying novel that shows blazingly well how the Holocaust should be dealt with in fiction. A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience'' INDEPENDENTTrade ReviewDeeply moving, sensitive enough to make me wince, a Holocaust novel, but light years away from the common run -- Ruth Rendell * Sunday Telegraph *Schlink's extraordinary novel The Reader is a compelling meditation on the connections between Germany's past and its present, dramatised with extreme emotional intelligence as the story of a relationship between the narrator and an older woman. It has won deserved praise across Europe for the tact and power with which it handles its material, both erotic and philosophical * Independent *Leaps national boundaries and speaks straight to the heart . . . a moving, suggestive and ultimately hopeful work * New York Times *The Reader by Bernhard Schlink is the German novel I have been waiting for: it objectifies the Holocaust and legitimately makes all mankind responsible -- Sir Peter Hall * Observer *For generations to come, people will be reading and marvelling over Bernhard Schlink's The Reader * Evening Standard *Haunting and unforgettable * Literary Review *A stunning examination of evil, this novel explores crime and punishment, love and guilt, dignity and degradation. * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *[Schlink] explores the conflict between generations, wrestling with collective guilt and individual motivation. He examines the nature if understanding and tests the limits of forgiveness. He does these things with honesty, restraint and a moral precision both unsettling and rare. The result is as compelling as any thriller * The Times *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Hogfather
Book Synopsis'Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland' Sunday TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .Trade Review'Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland...It has also an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things' * The Sunday Times *'Our best comic novelist' * New Scientist *I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett' * A.S. Byatt *
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers Love Story
Book SynopsisThe new enemies-to-lovers romcom from Lindsey KelkShe's a small-town schoolteacher, he's a hotshot creative director. Together, it's hate at first sight.Sophie Taylor has a secret and Joe Walsh is the last person she''d tell. He's devilishly handsome, incredibly hot and far too sure of himself.But Sophie desperately needs his help.Because she''s not just hiding something small. She is Este Cox, the mysterious romance author the entire world is desperate to unmask.When a trip to the countryside means sharing a cottage with only one bed, it's a short step to sharing a whole lot more besides Can Sophie trust Joe with the truth and be herself?''Love Story is Lindsey Kelk's best novel yet impossibly funny, wildly romantic and extremely hot I could not have loved it more' ROSIE WALSH''I really loved it What''s great about Lindsey''s main characters is you stick to them like glue from the very first page, you feel you know them, you root for them from the off'' JUSTIN MYERS, THE GUYLINERREADERS HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE ''What a loveable five-star read'' ?????''Such a wonderful contemporary romance that gives us not only a fab love story but is a heartfelt love letter to the genre itself'' ?????''Just a joyous, clever, heartwarming hug of a book that I did not want to put down''?????''I will be recommending Love Story to EVERYONE! Seriously. Potential Book of the Year here!!!! Perfection. Pure Perfection''?????
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HarperCollins Publishers Patchett A Bel Canto
Book SynopsisA beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself.''A book that works both as a paean to art and beauty and a subtly sly comedy of manners''New York TimesFirst published in 2001, Bel Canto is possibly Ann Patchett's most beloved novel. Set in an unnamed South American country, at the home of the vice president, it is the story of a lavish birthday party honoring Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has enthralled the international guests with a mesmerizing performance. The evening is perfectuntil a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But in Patchett's skilled hands, what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motionand cannot be stopped.Now, more than two decades after this bold and artistically daring novel's debut, Patchett revisits her early work. In this special annotated edition, the acclaimed prize-winning author opens the story to readers, providing enlightening commentary on her original version, including reflections on her narrative choices and style. A mature writer looking back at her younger self, Patchett takes us deep into her creative process and considers her career and growth as an artist, from that novel to her most recent, Tom Lake.Funny, full of insight, informal, and often unexpectedly moving, this annotated edition is an intimate encounter with a celebrated novelist, an opportunity to reconsider a great work through her eyes, and a guide for anyone who wants to understand how a novel takes form.
£21.25
HarperCollins Publishers The Invitation Escape with this epic pageturning
Book SynopsisThe perfect summer read Gorgeously compelling' Good HousekeepingFull of mystery and long-reaching shadows of the past . . . richly drawn and compelling' Rosanna LeyIt's 1951. In Europe's post-war wreckage, the glittering Italian Riviera draws an eclectic cast of characters; lured by the glamour but seeking an escape.Amongst them, two outcasts: Hal, an English journalist who's living on his charm; and Stella, an enigmatic society beauty, bound to a profiteering husband. When Hal receives a mysterious invitation from a wealthy Contessa, he finds himself aboard a yacht headed for Cannes film festival.Scratch the beautiful surface, and the post-war scars of his new companions are quick to show. Then there's Stella, whose secrets run deeper than anyone's stretching back into the violence of Franco's Spain. And as Hal gets drawn closer, a love affair begins that will endanger everyoneThe Invitation is an epic love story that will transport you from the glamour of the Italian Riviera, to theTrade Review‘A seductive love tale’ Sunday Times Style ‘Such a tense, intriguing, beautiful, heart-rending story . . . The characters are so real, the research flawless, the setting sublime. Read it!’ Clare Mackintosh ‘Glamour, secrets and danger makes this a gorgeous summer read’ Woman & Home ‘Sultry escapist fiction at its best – 5*’ HEAT ‘The perfect summer read… Gorgeously compelling’ Good Housekeeping ‘Oozes glamour… Lush, romantic and cleverly crafted – a brainy beach read to relish’ Sunday Mirror ‘I loved THE INVITATION . . . I could dive into this book. A beautifully complex and vivid story, full of repressed longing and secrets. An absolutely enchanting tale’ Lucinda Riley ‘A seductive love tale’ Sunday Times Style ‘So powerfully evoked . . . with dark, sensuous undercurrents that lingered on in my mind, long after I'd reluctantly left Stella and Hal behind’ Kate Riordan ‘Film crew, Italian Riviera, 1950s. What part of that does not appeal?’ Red ‘Full of mystery and long-reaching shadows of the past . . . richly drawn and compelling’ Rosanna Ley ‘This epic love story is an unputdownable summer read’ Essentials ‘If you like Victoria Hislop you’ll love the seductive and heady The Invitation’ Lovereading ‘An utterly seductive story depicting forbidden love and loss in 1950s Italy. The perfect beach read this summer' Louise O’Neill ‘I loved every page – it's vividly written and utterly absorbing’ Iona Grey ‘Foley weaves a very satisfying love story . . . readers will be taken by the luxurious Mediterranean setting’ Publishers Weekly ‘Glamorous and romantic and bittersweet all at once . . . a fabulous story’ Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of A Hundred Summers ‘It's a beautiful, compulsive and glamorous read – perfect for long summer days’ Lucy Clarke, author of the Richard & Judy bestseller, The Sea Sisters
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Freedom
Book SynopsisTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA masterpiece' New York TimesStupendous, magnificent, unforgettable, witty and rich. A great American novel' SpectatorFrom the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections comes a darkly comedic novel about family, now hailed as an American classic.They had been the perfect family: liberal gentrifiers, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. But the Berglunds are struggling to live in an ever more confusing world. Walter, an environmental lawyer and commuter cyclist, has taken a job with Big Coal. Patty, the ideal hands-on mother and wife, is growing unhinged in front of the neighbours' attentive eyes. Their son has moved in with the Republican family next door, and Richard Katz, outré rocker and Walter's best friend and rival, has re-entered their lives.Writing in prose that dazzles, Franzen has now written the two novels that best define modern America' IndependentA masterpiece. Franzen skewers the particularity of modern life and love like no one else' Daily TelegraphTrade Review‘Extraordinary… it is first troubling, then addictive – and then, with mounting satisfaction, convinces you this is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction’ Guardian ‘Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be’ Independent on Sunday 'Moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer 'Franzen pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the lives of his characters more real to you than your own' David Hare, Guardian 'By the end of Freedom you may feel you understand its protagonists better than you know anyone in the world around you' Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'The novel of the year. Its portrait of a marriage, luminously and wittily drawn against a backdrop of modern America, is as good as literature gets' Sarah Sands, New Statesman
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Book SynopsisElizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning A masterpiece'.One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly and, as a result of Barker's impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him and his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense and ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children and their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept'.Originally published in 1945, this remarkable book is now widely identTrade Review‘Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening … A masterpiece.’ Angela Carter ‘At some point every good reader comes across “By Grand Central Station I sat Down and Wept”. And he or she recognises an emotion essential and permanent to us.’ Michael Ondaatje ‘A revelation…This short, powerful work has a profound influence on me and was one of the factors that made me want to be a writer.’ Beryl Bainbridge ‘I doubt if there are more than half a dozen such masterpieces of poetic prose in the world.’ Brigid Brophy ‘Explores a passion between a man and two women, one of them his wife – a love despairing and triumphant upon which the reader may gaze, awed, appalled, or even, perhaps, envious.’ The Times ‘Few writers have ever captured the full honesty of what passion means as shockingly and as piercingly as Smart. Today, its force still strikes us hard in the face, a beautiful and bloody blow.’ Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday ‘Constructed as a single, sustained climax, it is like a cry of ecstasy which, without changing volume or pitch, becomes a cry of agony.’ Spectator ‘The emotion, the truth and abject affliction comes through…to move the reader, and even to awe him.’ London Review of Books
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers First Wifes Shadow
Book Synopsis''Had me in a chokehold from beginning to end A true five star read'' Lisa JewellDevious and dizzying, with twist after twist after twist I loved it' Louise Candlish''Wonderfully dark and sinister'' The SunSkilfully written and gripping' Lynda La Plante *****HIS FIRST WIFE DIED. NOW THERE''S A VACANCYWhen Emma meets Matthew, a kind, handsome widower, he seems to be just what she needs.Yet as their relationship moves fast, Emma's friends worry Emma might be exploited. She's a rich woman after all.Emma doesn't care Matthew has no money. But as the memory of his perfect first wife hangs over them, Emma does have one tiny doubt.If Matthew's wife hadn't died, he wouldn't be with her. And Emma wonders if she's second best. Can she ever fill the dead woman's shoes?As jealousy and suspicion blossom between Emma and Matthew, events take a darker, dangerous turn.Suddenly Emma doesn't know who she can trust. Her friends? Her husband? Or even herself?This sensational new thriller from the Number One bestseller Adele Parks will have you gripped until the very last page.*****Readers love First Wife''s Shadow:''The second half of the book was so gripping it was hard to stop reading. Twist after twist! I loved the ending. A must read!'' (Five stars)''Tense, creepy, twisty this brilliant new psychological thriller from Adele Parks gets right under your skin from the start'' (Five stars)''This was a rollercoaster of a thriller, thinking you kind of know the direction it was going before a swerve to another direction you haven't even considered! A fantastic book'' (Five stars)
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Amazon Publishing The Murmur of Bees
Book SynopsisFrom a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can—visions of all that’s yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats—both human and those of nature—Simonopio’s purpose in Linares will, in time, be divined. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.Trade Review“The book’s publication in the United States by Amazon Crossing announces a writer whose absorbing yet accessible prose and gift for sprinkling the mystical into a deeply human narrative is sure to draw comparisons to Latin American greats, such as Isabel Allende.” —The Washington Post “Sofía Segovia is already a famed author in Mexico, and with The Murmur of Bees she’s poised to become an international favorite too.” —POPSUGAR “A unique and deftly penned novel by an author with a genuine flair for the kind of narrative storytelling that holds the readers rapt attention from beginning to end, The Murmur of Bees is unreservedly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review “Acclaimed Mexican author Segovia’s first work translated into English is a gorgeous novel of family, friendship, land, and murderous envy, a tale reminiscent of Isabel Allende’s early tales…With the help of a gifted translator, Segovia skillfully envelops readers, fully engaging their senses and imagination in this wonderful novel.” —Booklist “The Murmur of Bees is unpredictable and heart-rending, a novel both grand in scope, capturing the fate of a country in flux, and deeply personal, with its intimate portrait of a family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.” —Brooklyn Digest “Ms. Segovia combines a subtly magical atmosphere and unique, yet believable characters with kinetic narration to craft a story with broad appeal.” —San Francisco Book Review “This is an incredible book by a great writer. I encourage everyone to run to obtain a copy. I await other books by this author.” —Historical Novel Society “A magical-realism romp from Mexico, Sofía Segovia’s The Murmur of Bees—her first novel translated into English—offers a dizzying swirl of history, family lore, tragedy, redemption, and, of course, magic.” —Washington Independent Review of Books “The Murmur of Bees by Mexican writer Sofía Segovia is the rare novel in historical fiction, realistically framed within historical events—the Mexican Revolution, the Spanish flu—and, at the same time, filled with preternatural circumstances and fantastic characters that have earned Segovia comparisons with magical realism writers such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende. It is universal at heart but also deeply imbedded in its setting.” —Historical Novel Society
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HarperCollins Publishers Wild River
Book SynopsisI may be the lawyer, but she''s the one judging me A bad boy small-town lawyer meets his match. Welcome to Magnolia Falls, perfect for fans of Elsie Silver, Lucy Score and B.K. Borison!***Ruby Rose declared me the enemy before I had a chance to defend myself.? I may be an attorney, but this girl had appointed herself judge and jury.? And I'd never minded a good verbal sparring.??But the more we fought the more I craved her.? Until our arguing turned into a bit of a wager.? One I was determined to win.? One time. Sixty seconds. A secret only we would share.?But from the minute we crossed the line, there was no turning back.? Ruby Rose may have given me more than sixty seconds, but she wasn't offering forever.? And now my world doesn't work without her in it.??But how do I convince her to stay, when she already has one foot out the door??Readers have fallen for WILD RIVER, will you?''This book omg! The way I obsessed over River and Ruby was not okay'' ?????''Burned hotter than any fire
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Structo Press El Llano in flames
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc What the Wife Knew
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DC Comics Absolute Power
Book SynopsisThe heroes of the DC Universe are powerless but their spirits are unbroken! With the Trinity of Evil in power, the resistance begins in DC s most explosive blockbuster story in years.
£22.49
HarperCollins Publishers The Story Spinner
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HarperCollins Publishers The Last Word Is Death
Book Synopsis''A cosy romp of cream teas, double-barrelled names and murder.'' THE SUNThe new book in the Val and Arbie mysteries from the multi-million-copy selling author Faith Martin.One of these guests has a date with deathArbuthnot Arbie' Swift arrives at Dashwood House, a glamorously modern hotel in the up-and-coming resort of Galton-next-the-Sea, but all plans for a relaxing stay are scuppered when one of the guests is found dead.The body is found in the writing room, the victim part of a set visiting the seaside town for an engagement party, which happens to include Arbie's old friend, Val.Familiar with Val and Arbie's previous experience in solving puzzling crimes, the bride asks the pair to investigate. They quickly discover that the victim had no shortage of enemies, and many of the guests are up to no good. But who is simply hiding a secret, and who is hiding murder?Readers have fallen in love with The Last Word is Death''Absolutely gorgeous storytelling with characters and setting perfect for the time frame' ?????''This one is perfect for readers who love Agatha Christie-style stories and cosy murder mysteries. A great second book!''?????''It has the hallmarks of an Agatha Christie mystery' ?????
£15.29
Imperial War Museum Sword of Bone
Book SynopsisA reissue of Anthony Rhodes’s acclaimed 1942 novel detailing his own wartime experience during the evacuation at Dunkirk. It is September 1939. Shortly after World War II is declared, Anthony Rhodes is sent to France, serving with the British Army. His days are filled with the minutiae and mundanities of army life—friendships, billeting, administration—as the months of the “Phoney War” quickly pass and the conflict seems a distant prospect. It is only in the spring of 1940 that the true situation becomes clear. The men are ordered to retreat to the coast and the beaches of Dunkirk, where they face a desperate and terrifying wait for evacuation.Trade Review"Brilliant. . . . A quietly confident masterwork." -- William Boyd"One of the best books to come out of the Second World War." -- Joshua Levine, author of Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
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Simon & Schuster Ltd 365 Days
Book SynopsisNow a hit Netflix film!The sexy and deeply romantic internationally bestselling novel that inspired the blockbuster movie. Laura Biel and her boyfriend are on a dream vacation in beautiful Sicily. On the second day of their trip, her twenty-ninth birthday, she is kidnapped. Her kidnapper is none other than the head of a powerful Sicilian crime family, the incredibly handsome, young Don Massimo Torricelli, who is determined to possess her at all costs. Massimo has his reasons. During an earlier attempt on his life, a vision appeared before his eyes: a beautiful woman, identical to Laura. After surviving the attack, he vows that he will find the woman in his vision and make her his own. No matter what. For 365 days, Massimo will keep Laura captive in his palatial estate and attempt to win her heart. If she doesn’t fall in love with him during this time, he will let her go. But if she tries to escape at any point, he will track her d
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Pan Macmillan War Masters Gate
Book SynopsisAdrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, and headed off to university in Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself, he subsequently ended up in law. Adrian has since worked as a legal executive, in both Reading and Leeds, and now writes full time. He also lives in Leeds, with his wife and son. Adrian is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor. He has also trained in stage-fighting and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind possibly excepting his son.Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel and Children of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. This was in the award's thirtieth anniversary year.
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Pan Macmillan The Man Without Qualities
Book SynopsisRobert Musil was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1880. Trained in science and philosophy, he left a career in the military to turn to writing. The publication of his novel Young Törless in 1906 brought him international recognition and remains a classic parable on the misuse of power. After serving in the First World War, Musil lived alternately in Vienna and Berlin, with much of his time being dedicated to the slow writing of his masterwork, The Man Without Qualities. In 1938, when Hitler's rise to power threatened Musil's work with being banned in both Austria and Germany, he emigrated to Switzerland, where he and his wife lived until his death in 1942. The first complete German edition of The Man Without Qualities finally appeared in 1978.Trade ReviewThe Man Without Qualities is one of the towering achievements of the European novel * Observer *I would recommend Sophie Wilkins' translation as a conscientious attempt to give to the English reader a novel which is compared to The Remembrance of Things Past and Ulysses * The Times *Immensely rich and therapeutic, bristling with wit and a sly humour * Sunday Telegraph *At last, at last - the fully fleshed arrival in English of the third member of the trinity in twentieth-century fiction, complementing Ulysses and The Remembrance of Things Past . . . This last-waltz novel is amazingly contemporary * Wall Street Journal *There is scarcely a page that does not provoke new thoughts or offer new insights, not a chapter that, even read on its own, does not prove stimulating * Scotsman *
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Rough Trade Books Musa Okwonga - In The End, It Was All About Love
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Pan Macmillan White Noise
Book SynopsisNow a major new Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta GerwigHow strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us?Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a train carriage releases an ‘Airborne Toxic Event’ and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear – his own mortality.White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo exposes our rampant consumerism, media saturation and novelty intellectualism. It captures the particular strangeness of life lived when the fear of death cannot be denied, repressed or obscured and ponders the role of the family in a time when the very meaning of our existence is under threat.‘America’s greatest living writer.’ – ObserverPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.Trade ReviewAmerica's greatest living writer. * Observer *An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy . . . hilariously, and grimly, successful. * Daily Telegraph *An astonishing novel . . . unforgettable . . . nearly every page crackles with memorable moments and perfectly turned phrases . . . dizzying, darkly beautiful fiction. * Sunday Times *
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Sort of Books The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka. Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka's foremost authors, Karunatilaka is back with a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths. 'Fizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars' The Booker judges 'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita ... Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history' Guardian 'Outstanding... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade.' New EuropeanTrade ReviewFizzes with energy, imagery and ideas against a broad, surreal vision of the Sri Lankan civil wars. * The Booker judges *Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita ... Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country's history * Guardian *Brilliant ... rollicking ... a pleasure to read. Karunatilaka writes with tinder-dry wit and an unfaltering ear for prose cadences. -- Kate McLoughlin * Times Literary Supplement *Outstanding ... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade * New European *An exuberant whodunnit ...There can't be many novels that simultaneously bring to mind Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie and John le Carré - but this one does * The Times *This magic realist (and often funny) novel fizzes with energy and ideas... Imagine a mash-up of Stranger Things and Salman Rushdie -- Robbie Millen * The Times *Shehan Karunatilaka's epic novel is a powerful evocation of Sri Lanka's dark and brutal past -- Lucy Popescu * Financial Times *The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is dazzling. Shehan Karunatilaka's use of Sri Lankan folk mythology is truly original ... human and non-human monsters equally terrify. And yet Karunatilaka's exuberant language and humour keeps this book buoyant and a joy to read -- Shyam Selvadurai, author of Funny BoyA brave and brilliantly inventive novel, full of energy, about a mad bad world in a dark time -- Romesh Gunesekera, author of Reef and Monkfish MoonShehan Karunatilaka's narrative is breathtakingly kaleidoscopic * Financial Times *Audacious, original and perfectly formed -- Suzanne Harrington * Writers Mosaic *A roaring talent ...Throw yourself into the arms of this book, relish its wild phantasmagorical ride. It's the most worthy Booker winner for many years -- Neil Mackay * Herald *
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HarperCollins Publishers One More For Christmas
Book SynopsisA no.1 Kindle and Apple and top three Sunday Times bestseller. ‘Christmas isn't Christmas without a Sarah Morgan novel to inhale…A feel-good family saga with characters that leap off the page – just perfection’ Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop ‘Feel-good festive family saga’ Daily Record * * * * Gayle is a highly successful and motivated business woman, but her success has come at a price – she hasn’t spoken to her daughters, Ella and Samantha, for years. But when Gayle has an accident at work, she realises she needs to make amends with her family. And so she invites herself to join Ella and Samantha for their Christmas in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. The sisters are none too pleased that their mother has inserted herself into their Christmas plans. They have each other – and don’t need their mother back in their lives. Or so they think… As they embark on their first family Christmas together in years, will the three women learn that sometimes facing up to a few home truths is all you need to heal your heart? * * * * What readers are saying about One More for Christmas: ‘For me, Christmas is a Sarah Morgan book with candle light and a cosy blanket. Just perfect.’ ‘I loved this book, full of drama, humour, emotional fireworks and hot romance all wrapped up in the kind of charming Christmas package that Morgan specialises in.’ ‘Sarah has a knack for Christmas novels and this one is up there with her greatest. Perfect read for these cold nights. [Her] books grab you instantly and keep you hooked till the end, leaving us always wanting more.’ ‘Yet again, Sarah Morgan filled me with Christmas joy . . . I didn't want the book to end.’Trade Review Praise for One More for Christmas ‘Christmas isn't Christmas without a Sarah Morgan novel to inhale…A feel-good family saga with characters that leap off the page – just perfection’ Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop ‘Feel-good festive family saga’ Daily Record Praise for Sarah Morgan ‘Comfort reading at its best, all wrapped up in a tartan ribbon. Sarah Morgan will make your Christmas!’ Veronica Henry, Sunday Times bestselling author ‘Joyful, uplifting and overflowing with love. Sarah’s writing speaks straight to my heart’ Cathy Bramley, Sunday Times bestselling author ‘I adored it! I felt every character’s pain, hope, and reluctant vulnerability … Sarah Morgan is a master storyteller’ Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop ‘A sparkling tale of acceptance and love’ Woman’s Weekly ‘Sarah Morgan is back in style with a perfect snow-filled read’Woman & Home ‘An emotional, uplifting and heart-warming winter novel that’s perfect for those chilly nights in’ OK! ‘A sparkling winter romance with a lively family at the centre of it all’ Woman
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Pan Macmillan The Braid
Book SynopsisThree women. Three countries. One unforgettable journey. The Braid is a vibrant and singular reminder of what connects us all – across borders, across languages, across cultures.‘A beautifully written novel of determination, bravery, and hope. You will remember Smita, Giulia, and Sarah long after you’ve read their stories.’ – AJ Pearce, author of Dear Mrs Bird In India, Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of giving her young daughter an education and will go to any length to make that happen, including leaving behind all she knows in search of a better future. In Sicily, Giulia works in her father’s wig workshop, the last of its kind in Palermo. When her father is the victim of a serious accident, she discovers that her family’s livelihood is at stake. In Canada, Sarah is a twice-divorced mother of three children and a successful lawyer whose identity is wrapped up in her work. Just as she expects the promotion she’s been working her entire career for, she learns she has breast cancer. 'Laetitia Colombani is master at the art of storytelling.' – Le MondeTrade ReviewWe truly loved reading this beautiful, simple novel . . . with characters who teach or remind us of the all too often unacceptable conditions in which women around the world live. * ELLE (France) *The Braid is a beautifully written novel of determination, bravery and hope. You will remember Smita, Giulia and Sarah long after you’ve read their stories. -- AJ Pearce, author of Dear Mrs BirdA screenwriter and director, Laetitia Colombani is clearly a master of the art of storytelling and editing. She creates female characters with strong personalities, whose lives she interweaves in a hopeful vision. But her writing is sensitive and restrained enough to save the novel from any accusation that it’s nothing more than a ‘feel good’ book. * Le Monde *Elegant and engaging . . . What stood out for me was the colour and authenticity the author gives to each character’s background as they face lifechanging challenges and search for the courage to confront and overcome them. * Daily Mail *Tuck a copy of Laetitia Colombani’s The Braid under your arm for ultimate cultural clout this spring. * ES magazine *
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Quercus Publishing Tropic of Violence
Book SynopsisMarie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby and names him Moïse, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up, Moïse struggles with his status as an outsider and to understand why he was abandoned as a baby. When Marie dies, he is left alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil, ending up in the largest and most infamous slum on Mayotte, nicknamed Gaza.Narrated by five different characters, Tropic of Violence is an exploration of lost youth on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Shining a powerful light on problems of violence, immigration, identity, deprivation and isolation on this island that became a French département in 2011, it is a remarkable, unsettling new novel that draws on the author''s own observations from her time on Mayotte.Translated from the French by Geoffrey StrachanTrade ReviewA masterpiece -- François Busnel * La Grande Librairie *This hard, harsh story will wring out your heart with its otherworldly poetry -- Xavier Houssin * Elle *In the magnificent Tropic of Violence, Nathacha Appanah gives us a terrifying portrait of Mayotte -- Julien Bisson * Lire *A brief, beautiful, brutal portrait of this tiny island in the Indian Ocean -- Gladys Marivat * Le Monde *The strength and the elegance of this novel will take your breath away -- Marianne Payot * L'Express *The hell of Mayotte finds its redemption in the novel's restrained, imaginative use of language -- Claire Devarrieux * Libération *Brilliantly vivid * Guardian *Beautiful and brutal * New Yorker *Searing, lyrical, and ultimately devastating, Tropic of Violence might be Appanah's finest yet * Kirkus Reviews *
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Pan Macmillan The Women
Book SynopsisKristin Hannah is an award-winning international number one bestselling author with over 25 million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her most recent titles, The Four Winds, The Great Alone and The Nightingale won numerous best fiction awards and her earlier novel, Firefly Lane, is currently a blockbuster series on Netflix. The Nightingale is soon to be a major movie and is described by many as one of the most loved books of our generation. Kristin's writing has taken readers across multiple eras and to many places, but the thing that connects all of her work is the focus on what it's like being a woman in challenging times. Kristin is a lawyer-turned-writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle.Trade ReviewHannah’s tale, rich with period detail, is an impassioned tribute to the heroism of the many thousands who did serve, as well as a hymn to female solidarity in the darkest of settings. It’s a surprisingly original take on a well-trodden subject * The Times *Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful -- Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing A sweeping, powerful story of courage with a detail-rich setting * Good Housekeeping *An epic story * Woman&Home *Hannah is in top form * New York Times *Moving, exceptionally well researched -- Stephen KingKristin Hannah’s novel shines a light on the sacrifice, commitment and heroism of the incredible women often forgotten about in history books. A truly emotional, realistic and unforgettable book * Culturefly *Wow. I have been left with a bursting heart . . . a story of love, family, unbreakable bonds, bravery and hope -- Christy Lefteri, bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo on The Four WindsA powerful, stirring, wind-swept tale . . . makes your heart break and soar in equal measure. An escape into the past with timely echoes to the present. Kristin Hannah is a classic storyteller -- Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library on The Four WindsA real page-turning read. Best book I’ve read all year -- Martina Cole, author of Close on The Four WindsI didn’t just love this book, I became obsessed with it . . . The characters were flawed and vulnerable, strong and naive, and Hannah has delivered a masterclass in all the different ways love can both save us and destroy us -- Karen Swan, author of The Stolen Hours on The Great AloneEpic . . . By the end, I was surrounded by snow-drifts of tissues damp with my tears -- The Washington Post on The Great AloneGreat characters, great plots, great emotions: who could ask for more in a novel? -- Isabel Allende, author of Violeta on The NightingaleMovingly written and plotted with the skill of Greek tragedy. You’ll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob -- Daily Mail on The NightingaleA rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival, as epic as the Alaskan landscape it so vividly describes -- Kate Morton, author of Homecoming on The Great Alone
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Union Square & Co. A Room with a View
Book SynopsisMiss Lucy Honeychurch is on a tour of Italy with her cousin and chaperone Miss Charlotte Bartlett when she encounters the young George Emerson, on a similar tour with his father. George finds himself drawn to the pretty, spirited Lucy, while Lucy is intrigued by George's rejection of 'proper' behavior. Despite her attraction to George, Lucy later becomes engaged to Cecil Vyse, a London 'sophisticate' whose upper class status makes him an excellent match; but when she discovers that George Emerson and his father have rented a villa close to her family home, Lucy must choose between convention and genuine emotion. A comedy of manners, A Room with a View is the perfect blend of gentle satire and a predictable, sweet love story—perfect for fans of Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde.
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Oneworld Publications The Paris Novel
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Honford Star The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
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Daunt Books Headshot
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Zibby Books Pictures of You
Book SynopsisIf you knew then what you know now, would you make the same choices? Imagine having a second chance with the one you never forgot.From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragic accident, and the man who gives up everything to help her.When Evie Hudson wakes in an unfamiliar hospital room, she thinks she's fresh out of a teenage party with her best friend, Bree. Except, Bree isn't around anymore and high school was years ago. Evie had just survived the crash that killed her husband, Oliverwhom she can''t remember either. After suffering a traumatic loss of memory, she's left to connect the dots. But how?Enter: Drew, a promising photographer whose chance encounter with Evie unravels the elusive details of her marriage and her husband's death. As Drew watches Evie stitch the story of her life together, secrets emerge that might shatter both of their worlds.This tangled second-chance romance leads Evie to question every decision she ever made. This time around, she's seeing all the things she missedand the life she gets to choose...again.
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Profile Books Ltd Veronica
Book SynopsisAlison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modelling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly between the glamorous and gritty '80s, when beauty and style gave licence to excess, and the broken world of the decade's survivors twenty years later, Gaitskill casts a fierce yet compassionate eye on the two eras and their fixations. Veronica masterfully evokes the fragility and mystery of human relationships in a world where love is rife with frightening artificiality. Evocative, raw and entirely unique, Veronica was shortlisted for the prestigious 2005 National Book Award in the USA.Trade ReviewGaitskill writes beautifully about the agonising emotions we often try to keep under wraps in real life. * Grazia *A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships * Observer *Gaitskill is a formidably gifted, astute writer... * The Sunday Business Post *Gaitskill deserves some sort of monument [for this] beautiful, devastating new novel...There are paragraphs like poems in Veronica that lure you back, over and over. * Elle *Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the very incongruousness of her language has shocking power. * The New York Times *This characteristically oblique glance at the US fashion modeling industry of the 1980s is written with all the psychological kick that distinguished Gaitskill's last collection of stories. -- DJ Taylor * TLS Books of the Year *Gaitskill is enormously gifted ... [Veronica] is a masterly examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture and fashion, time and memory. * The New York Times Book Review *Both stripped-bare fragile and 'fuck you' tough. * Dazed & Confused *A sensitive, astute and uncompromising exploration of the beauty and ugliness of human relationships * Observer *
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Simon & Schuster Ltd The Cornish Hideaway
Book SynopsisA beautiful village. An artist who’s lost her spark. And a community who help her find it again. ‘Charming and romantic, sweet and sunny. I loved it’ MILLY JOHNSON 'A warm and charm-filled story about community, passion and following your heart, The Cornish Hideaway is a feel-good delight. Its dreamy seaside setting and cast of loveable characters quickly became a world I didn't want to leave. A holiday romance in book form - I adored it!' HOLLY MILLER ‘A sun-drenched summer in picture-perfect Polcarrow - I didn't want it to end’ HOLLY HEPBURN All Freya has ever wanted to do is paint. So when she fails her Master’s Degree in Art, on the same day that her boyfriend decides he needs a ‘more serious’ partner, to Freya it feels like the end of the world. Luckily, she has a saviour in the shape of best friend Lola, who invTrade Review'There’s so much to fall in love with in Jennifer Bibby’s romantic debut. Every page oozes with their warmth! If you ever needed a reminder of the healing power of friends, the landscape and a slice of freshly baked cake, then The Cornish Hideaway is the perfect novel. A charming read for the summer season' LOVEREADING 'A lovely story of finding love and a place to call home in the beautiful Cornish seaside, a wonderfully uplifting book' ALISON SHERLOCK
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Shanghai
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Everyman The Sound And The Fury
Book SynopsisEver since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, the novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. At its heart, this is a novel about lovelessness
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Tilted Axis Press One Hundred Shadows
Book SynopsisOne Hundred Shadows is an oblique, hard-edged novel tinged with offbeat fantasy, set in a slum electronics market in central Seoul earmarked for demolition.
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Orion Publishing Co Soul Music
Book SynopsisNever has DEATH rocked so hard. Terry Pratchett''s phenomenal laugh-out-loud Discworld series returns . . .''If you are unfamiliar with Pratchett''s unique blend of philosophical badinage, you are on the threshold of a mind-expanding opportunity'' Financial TimesOTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES. SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF.Yes. There''s a Death in the family.It''s hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld.It''s lawless. It changes people.It''s called Music With Rocks In.It''s got a beat and you can dance to it, but...It''s alive.And it won''t fade away.Readers love Soul Music:''A wondTrade ReviewA sequence of unalloyed delight. - GuardianHe is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style. - Daily TelegraphHis spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction. - Mail on SundayPratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own. - Sunday Times
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Last Train to London
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The Last Train to London is painful and beautiful, absorbing and unforgettable. A wonderful tribute to courage, to a remarkable woman, to the ones she saved, and the ones she could not. Recommend this book to anyone who thinks no single person can make a difference.” — Karen Joy Fowler, author of the USA Today Bestseller We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves “The Last Train to London is an absolutely fascinating, beautifully rendered story of love, loss, and heroism in the dark days leading up to World War II. Clayton perfectly captures the tension and heartbreak of the times, which feel so relevant today. It is a glowing portrait of women rising up against impossible odds to save children.” — Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Alone and The Nightingale “What a delight it was to read this brilliant telling of the Kindertransport, a novel threaded with compassion, hope and love. Thank you, Meg Waite Clayton for reminding us of what can happen when good people conspire against evil.” — Heather Morris, #1 bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz “The Last Train to London is a rare thing: intellectually provocative and emotionally moving in equal measure. What a fine tribute to the victims and survivors of the Nazis’ early terrors, and to the woman who at great personal risk and sacrifice subverted Hitler’s will. Everyone should read this timely, gorgeous novel.” — Therese Anne Fowler, bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald “This is a standout historical fiction that serves as a chilling reminder of how insidious, pervasive evil can gradually seep into everyday lives.” — Publishers Weekly “Enlightening, meticulously researched ... Clayton’s story of the remarkable woman, known as Tante Truus, is enriched by a compelling cast of fictional characters.” — Booklist (starred review) “With its well-developed characters and race-against-the-clock plot, this fantastic novel should have broad appeal, especially with fans of historical fiction and thrillers.” — Library Journal (starred review) “Riveting … Clayton makes vivid Truus’s courage and resourcefulness in the face of growing danger as borders close throughout Europe.” — BBC “Glimmers with hope: the heroism of everyday people putting their own comfortable lives in jeopardy to help others.” — BookPage “An engrossing, heart-wrenching, and inspiring account of ordinary people making life-and-death choice in the darkest of times.” — Jerusalem Post “Excellent. . . clearly the product of prodigious historical research. . . serves as a reminder that even in dangerous times, every person can make a difference. . . . Ultimately, this historical novel offers great insight into the inspiring humanity of those who opposed the Nazis; Clayton brings Tante Truus to life at a timely moment when cruelty is once again on the march.” — San Francisco Examiner "Heartfelt and mesmerizing...takes the reader on an unforgettable journey...If you like books set in World War II featuring complex, courageous female protagonists who were ahead of their time, this book should earn a place at the top of the list." — Historical Novels Review
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Eve's Hollywood
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