Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Harper The Red Address Book
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£20.00
Houghton Mifflin The Best American Short Stories 2019
Book Synopsis#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. “As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong,” writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year’s best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America’s rich rural culture to its online teen culture to the fragile nature of the therapist-client relationship. This astonishing collection brings together the realistic and dystopic, humor and terror. For Doerr, “with every new artist, we simultaneously refine and expand our understanding of what the form can be.”
£14.44
Harpervia Surrender
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£14.39
William Morrow & Company The House at Seas End
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£8.54
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company The Best American Mystery Stories 2020
Book SynopsisA collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award–winning author C. J. Box.C. J. Box , #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual “treat for crime-fiction fans” (Library Journal).
£16.14
HarperCollins The News From The End Of The World
Book Synopsis“This one’s a winner.” —People Vance Lake is broke, jobless, and recently dumped. Taking refuge with his twin brother, Craig, on Cape Cod, he unwittingly finds himself in the middle of a crisis that would test even the most cohesive family, let alone the Lakes. Seventeen-year-old Amanda is pregnant. Craig is heartbroken and full of rage; his exasperated wife, Gina, is on the brink of an affair; and Amanda is indignant, ashamed, and very, very scared. Told in alternating points of view by each member of this colorful New England clan, and infused with the quiet charm of the Cape in the off-season, The News from the End of the World follows one family into a crucible of pent-up resentments, old and new secrets, and memories long buried. Only by coming to terms with their pasts, as individuals and together, do they stand a chance of emerging intact. “My favorite kind of book, bighearted and full of complicate
£12.74
Houghton Mifflin The Girl in Green
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£14.24
Mariner Books Classics The Man in the High Castle TieIn
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£17.09
Ecco Press All Grown Up
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£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Salt Houses
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£15.29
Harper Perennial Sympathy
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£13.49
HarperCollins What We Owe
Book SynopsisThe winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize about mothers and daughters, nation and exile, and the way forward with hope and pain . . . a masterpiece (Tayari Jones, The Times).A gut punch of a novel that asks us to consider: what do we pass on to our children? What do we owe those we love? And without roots, can you ever truly be free? Nahid has six months left to live. Or so the doctors say. At fifty, she is no stranger to loss. But now, as she stands on the precipice of her own deathjust as she has learned that her daughter Aram is pregnant with her first childNahid is filled with both new fury and long dormant rage. Her life back home in Iran, and living as a refugee in Sweden, has been about survival at any cost. How to actually live, she doesn't know; she has never had the ability or opportunity to learn. Here is an extraordinary story of exile, dislocation, and the emotional minefields between mothers and daughters; a stor
£11.99
Lulu.com Bartleby the Scrivener
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£20.91
Laura Heffernan Annas Guide to Getting Even
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£13.29
Orion Publishing Co Hannas Daughters
Book SynopsisThe highly acclaimed, international bestselling novel following the lives of three generations of women.'Brilliant' USA TODAY'Extremely moving and, as its bestseller status might suggest, hypnotically readable' SPECTATORTrade ReviewExtremely moving and, as its bestseller status might suggest, hypnotically readable * SPECTATOR *Hanna and her daughters are hard to shake off, lingering long after you've turned the last page ... Profound, moving ... rich in detail * SHE *Brilliant ... Hanna's Daughters outlines the lives of three generations of women and their complicated relationships with one another * USA TODAY *Gripping and gritty. Catherine Cookson with a touch of Strindberg -- Marika CobboldAn uplifting family saga ... Fredriksson provides a satisfyingly complex ... chronicle of women and the burdens imposed by their family history, their gender and themselves ... Its message of reconciliation is transcendent * PEOPLE *Fredriksson's knack for connecting with her characters creates a gentle and subtly nuanced portrait of growing friendship and understanding * SCOTSMAN *Fredriksson is gifted with both the insights of maturity and the art of the storyteller * JEWISH CHRONICLE *The writing is exquisite ... For me, finding this gem of an author was a true and marvellous discovery * THE RECORD *Skilled at picturing the changing world of Sweden and the evolving place of women in it * TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL *A wonderful book. The family chronicle, a kind of story which once produced the greatest novels, now seems to be experiencing a renaissance * DIE WELT *Well translated and beautifully controlled ... Very satisfying * PUBLISHING NEWS *I loved Hanna's Daughters from the very first page, and I absolutely could not put it down ... Written with grace and wit, this novel deserves to be read, discussed, and cherished by future generations of mothers and daughters -- Judith Guest, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE AND ERRANDS
£9.49
Orion Publishing Co Unfinished Business
Book SynopsisUNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement - his ordinary plight is sharpened, becoming increasingly urgent. Having lived in a modern condition, confusing pleasure with happiness, wanting the dream to deliver, what do you do when you notice the shadows begin to lengthen on the lawn?Trade ReviewUnfinished Business is humane, intimate and affecting because it explores universal themes - ageing, marriage, friendship, mortality - and celebrates beauty -- Max Liu * Financial Times *The tenor of Unfinished Business feels dreamlike, fragmentary, except that the writing is also exact and alert, anchored very particularly in time and place. Better known as a cultural critic, Bracewell hasn't published a novel in 21 years. This is quite the comeback . . . The overall tone is so measured that the tragic event at the novel's climax stuns like a concussion - worse than that, because it's not even the tragedy we thought we had seen coming -- Anthony Quinn * Guardian *This sense of innocence and wanting is what gives this eerie novel its power to move and frighten . . . Bracewell excels at this kind of shocked satire, of London's continuing grand delusions -- Gwendoline Riley * TLS *I was won over by this quietly reflective gem of a novel about regret, ageing, and the memory of lost love * Independent *I gave up on Proust to read this - there are similarities - and didn't regret it. Not for a moment -- Geoff DyerWhat a poignant, quietly devastating novel, a meditation of loss in all its flavours and pains of late middle age with a Prufrock for our times at its heart -- Travis ElboroughThere is an elegance and mystery to Bracewell's writing as well as a sumptuous, slightly chilly delight in the sensuality and texture of things; clothes, food, drink, interiors. His prose evokes a world that is at once unknowable, beautiful and sad -- Stuart MaconieMichael Bracewell's masterpiece was worth the wait. Awash with luxury and regret, suffused with the pent-up emotion of The Great Gatsby and the style of a post-modern dandy, Bracewell delivers something magical -- Philip HoareThis elegaic, understated story of a man cut adrift in London, haunted by the reality of his own decaying body, is an essay in fracturing memory, a compassionate and tender tale of searching for a better life as time runs short -- Philip ClarkThis book has the instantly recognisable feel of a minor classic. Melancholic, reflective, it quietly and elegantly asks the big questions: what is a life for, exactly? What does it all amount to? A devastating portrait of a once dazzling life fading to grey -- Keiran GoddardMichael Bracewell is an extraordinary stylist who's able to summon whole eras with a few deft phrases. In Unfinished Business, his prose mastery of cultural codes and aesthetic textures is put to work on the most intimate kinds of hope and loss. As a novelist he dazzles, then breaks your heart, and I wish I knew how he pulls it off -- Brian DillonFor me, Michael Bracewell, in edgy, elusive works, like Present Tense, Souvenir, and now Unfinished Business, has always been engaged in something very special. A spiritual adventure which embraces all things with huge curiosity, seems present throughout his work -- Alan Warner
£13.59
Hodder & Stoughton The Tea Ladies of St Judes Hospital
Book SynopsisThe heartwarming and hilarious new novel by the author of cherished bestsellers The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home
£18.00
John Murray Press Camp Zero
Book Synopsis''A cold, hungry adventure story about the power of choice and the strength of solidarity'' SEAN MICHAELSAmerica, 2049: Summer temperatures are intolerably high, the fossil fuel industry has shut down, and humans are implanted with a ''Flick'' at birth, which allows them to remain perpetually online. The wealthy live in the newly created Floating City off the coast, while people on the mainland struggle to get by. For Rose, a job as a hostess in the city''s elite club feels like her best hope for a better future. At a Cold War-era research station, a group of highly trained women with the code name White Alice are engaged in climate surveillance. But the terms of their employment become increasingly uncertain. And in a former oil town in northern Canada called Dominion Lake, a camp is being built-Camp Zero. A rare source of fresh, clean air and cooler temperatures, it will be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. Grant believes it wiTrade ReviewThis is a distinctive, involving slice of cli-fi about the power of solidarity that illustrates how closely utopias and their opposites are related * Daily Mail *A gripping work of speculative climate fiction . . . page-turning feminist mystery-thriller * Observer *Camp Zero is a sui generis novel, boldly imagined, intricately designed, and convincingly detailed. Though set in the near future, it resonates with a palpable sense of reality and with the deep insights into some dimensions of the human condition, such as migrations, the burden of the past, environmental destruction, gender inequality, self-recreation. Page by page, the prose shines with subtle verbal artistry. This is a groundbreaking literary work. -- Ha JinMichelle Sterling has written a big, gutsy, and clear-eyed novel of the near future that neither lurches with dread nor swoons with false hope: it's a cold, hungry adventure story about the power of choice and the strength of solidarity. You won't be able to put it down. -- Sean Michaels, Giller-Prize winning author of Us ConductorsIn an equally tantalizing and terrifying tour de force, Michelle Min Sterling boldly remixes the realities of our present world, the danger we are in, and the fates we have settled for through a mesmerizing story of loyalty, deception, and ultimately love. Camp Zero's dark twists and bright turns left me breathless, hopeful, furious, and emboldened until the very end -- Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina LeeSterling's stunning debut offers a glimpse into a climate change-ravaged future in which resources diminish quickly and new frontiers are hard to find . . . this cleverly constructed climate fiction mystery feels like one many readers could see within their lifetimes. This should earn a place on shelves alongside Station Eleven and Annihilation * Publishers Weekly *CAMP ZERO is the thrilling, urgent feminist climate fiction that the world needs. With extraordinary world-building, captivating characters, and sharp commentary on climate change, technology, colonialism, capitalism, and the patriarchy, Michelle Min Sterling's remarkable debut delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists, and abundant heart -- JESSAMINE CHAN, NYT bestselling author of THE SCHOOL FOR BAD MOTHERSAction-packed . . . It's about how women can come together to change the world . . . incredible -- Read with Jenna * Today *The different narratives come together in a surprising and satisfying way in this absorbing novel * Guardian *A gripping story about survival, with compelling characters and frightening plot twists that will keep you riveted * Real Simple *
£15.29
John Murray Press Camp Zero
Book Synopsis**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**''A page-turning feminist mystery thriller'' Observer''Distinctive and involving'' Daily Mail''Surprising and satisfying'' GuardianRose wants a better life for herself and her mother. Taking a job as a hostess in the Floating City''s elite club feels like her best hope. It means she has a steady pay cheque, that she can stay cool as the temperatures hit new highs and when storms devastate the mainland, she is safe. And when the eccentric creator of the Flick, the universally enjoyed digital implant which allows everyone to remain perpetually online, asks for her to spy on a secretive northern building project in return for her mother''s residency, Rose agrees. But she is unprepared for the brutality of Camp Zero. And when it becomes clear that she is not the only person with an agenda, solidarity becomes as precious as fresh air.Trade ReviewThis is a distinctive, involving slice of cli-fi about the power of solidarity that illustrates how closely utopias and their opposites are related * Daily Mail *A gripping work of speculative climate fiction . . . page-turning feminist mystery-thriller * Observer *Camp Zero is a sui generis novel, boldly imagined, intricately designed, and convincingly detailed. Though set in the near future, it resonates with a palpable sense of reality and with the deep insights into some dimensions of the human condition, such as migrations, the burden of the past, environmental destruction, gender inequality, self-recreation. Page by page, the prose shines with subtle verbal artistry. This is a groundbreaking literary work. -- Ha JinMichelle Sterling has written a big, gutsy, and clear-eyed novel of the near future that neither lurches with dread nor swoons with false hope: it's a cold, hungry adventure story about the power of choice and the strength of solidarity. You won't be able to put it down. -- Sean Michaels, Giller-Prize winning author of Us ConductorsIn an equally tantalizing and terrifying tour de force, Michelle Min Sterling boldly remixes the realities of our present world, the danger we are in, and the fates we have settled for through a mesmerizing story of loyalty, deception, and ultimately love. Camp Zero's dark twists and bright turns left me breathless, hopeful, furious, and emboldened until the very end -- Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina LeeSterling's stunning debut offers a glimpse into a climate change-ravaged future in which resources diminish quickly and new frontiers are hard to find . . . this cleverly constructed climate fiction mystery feels like one many readers could see within their lifetimes. This should earn a place on shelves alongside Station Eleven and Annihilation * Publishers Weekly *CAMP ZERO is the thrilling, urgent feminist climate fiction that the world needs. With extraordinary world-building, captivating characters, and sharp commentary on climate change, technology, colonialism, capitalism, and the patriarchy, Michelle Min Sterling's remarkable debut delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists, and abundant heart -- JESSAMINE CHAN, NYT bestselling author of THE SCHOOL FOR BAD MOTHERSAction-packed . . . It's about how women can come together to change the world . . . incredible -- Read with Jenna * Today *The different narratives come together in a surprising and satisfying way in this absorbing novel * Guardian *A gripping story about survival, with compelling characters and frightening plot twists that will keep you riveted * Real Simple *
£8.99
Random House USA Inc A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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£11.13
Random House USA Inc The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
Book SynopsisA Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs. In 1953, the good doctor gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent, and Marylou has been plotting her revenge ever since. When she discovers his whereabouts in Florida, she hightails it to Tallahassee, moves in down the block from where he resides with his daughter, Caroline, and begins the tricky work of insinuating herself into his life. But she has no idea what a nest of yellow jackets she’s stumbled into. Spriggs is senile, his daughter’s on the verge of collapse, and his grandchildren are a mess of oddballs, leaving Marylou wondering whether she’s really meant to ruin their lives … or fix them.
£15.26
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Murder Room
£14.41
Random House USA Inc Close Quarters Vintage Contemporaries
Book SynopsisFrom the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford. In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.
£14.45
Random House USA Inc A Dark Matter
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£9.49
Random House USA Inc The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Book SynopsisA landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.“To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy.” —The New YorkerRanging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.
£12.75
Hyperion The Winter Rose
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£15.29
Sourcebooks, Inc Through a Glass Darkly
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£21.59
Sourcebooks How to Kill a Rock Star
Book SynopsisTiffanie DeBartolo is the author of 'How To Kill a Rock Star' (2005) and 'God Shaped Hole' (2002), and is the writer and director of the Columbia Tristar movie 'Dream for an Insomniac' (1996). She is the Founder and CEO of SF Bay Area record label Bright Antenna Records andlives in Marin with her two dogs Dizzy and Dipsea and her husband Scott Schumaker.
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Sourcebooks, Inc Cotillion
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£17.09
Sourcebooks, Inc False Colours
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£17.58
Sourcebooks, Inc Lady of Quality
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£15.29
Sourcebooks, Inc Black Sheep
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Sourcebooks, Inc Fridays Child
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£18.04
Sourcebooks, Inc Regency Buck
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£18.04
Sourcebooks, Inc Charity Girl
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Reluctant Widow
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£17.55
Sourcebooks, Inc Cousin Kate
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£18.04
Sourcebooks, Inc The Talisman Ring
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£17.09
Sourcebooks, Inc These Old Shades 3 Historical Romances
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£17.09
Sourcebooks, Inc The Foundling
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Masqueraders
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Sourcebooks, Inc Legacy The Acclaimed Novel of Elizabeth Englands
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£21.59
Sourcebooks, Inc A Civil Contract
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Sourcebooks, Inc April Lady
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Sourcebooks, Inc Bath Tangle
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Sourcebooks, Inc The TollGate
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Unknown Ajax
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Quiet Gentleman
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