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Sourcebooks Falling for Gage
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£16.14
Hermits United Le Detachement feminin rouge
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£8.54
Wild Hunt Books The OffSeason
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£16.51
Author In Me Fortuna and the Islands of Goddesses
Book SynopsisThe novella is an enchanting tale of bravery. A young girl abandoned by her parents realises she has a mission to fulfil. On her journey, she meets a talking hedgehog, divine goddesses and many other interesting characters who help her realise her true potential. Will she be able to fight against the evil and save her loved ones?
£8.99
Author In Me Beyond
Book SynopsisIt's a fascinating story about a young girl's power to interact with ghosts and explore another dimension. The novella written by a young author expertly weaves together themes of courage, friendship, and the power of imagination.
£7.99
ECW Press The Northern
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£16.19
ECW Press Off Menu
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£16.11
Book*hug Letters to Amelia
Book SynopsisGrace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter, she understands more about the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together.When Grace discovers she is pregnant, her life becomes more intertwined with the mysterious pilot and Grace begins to write her own letters to Amelia. While navigating her third trimester, amidst new conspiracy theories about Amelia’s disappearance, the search for her remains, and the impending publication of her private letters, Grace goes on a pilgrimage of her own.Letters to Amelia is a stunning, contemporary epistolary novel from the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. It underscores the power of reading and writing letters for both connection and self-discovery, and celebrates the unwritten, undocumented parts of our lives.Above all, Letters to Amelia is a story of the essential need for connection—and our universal ability to find hope in the face of fear.Praise for Letters to Amelia:"Brimming over with Lindsay Zier-Vogel's obvious love for the story of Amelia Earhart, Letters to Amelia is a wonderful novel about flight and passion, about love-letters and reaching out; a novel about how we never know quite what's coming next, but still keep launching ourselves into the blue tomorrow."—Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13"A tender portrait of heartbreak and a thoughtful ode to new motherhood. Letters to Amelia is an endorsement of finding our own ways to heal, and a celebration of that big, messy, wonderful journey of coming into one's own. Charming and beautifully rendered, this is a big-hearted hopeful novel, full of life and love." —Stacey May Fowles, author of Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me"When we think of Amelia Earhart, we think enigmatic adventurer and feminist pioneer—and, of course, of her mysterious disappearance. But in Letters to Amelia, we meet a different Amelia Earhart, as seen through the eyes of Grace, the novel’s protagonist, a young library tech tasked with reading her letters: an Amelia who is funny, charming, joyful, sad, and most of all, full of life. Zier-Vogel writes with uncanny empathy about heartbreak, friendship, motherhood, and the common threads that connect women across time, geography, and even between earth and sky. Letters to Amelia is a gorgeous, big-hearted debut that will make you feel like you are flying, and Zier-Vogel is a writer whose career is about to soar." —Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of Me"Letters to Amelia invites us to hold our heroines close and to take heart – it is gentle and joyous, full of tenderness, alive and sturdy with hope." —Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter VaultTrade Review"A tender portrait of heartbreak and a thoughtful ode to new motherhood. Letters to Amelia is an endorsement of finding our own ways to heal, and a celebration of that big, messy, wonderful journey of coming into one's own. Charming and beautifully rendered, this is a big-hearted hopeful novel, full of life and love." Stacey May Fowles, author of Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me"A wonderful novel about flight and passion, about love-letters and reaching out; a novel about how we never know quite what's coming next, but still keep launching ourselves into the blue tomorrow." Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13"Zier-Vogel writes with uncanny empathy about heartbreak, friendship, motherhood, and the common threads that connect women across time, geography, and even between earth and sky. Letters to Amelia is a gorgeous, big-hearted debut." Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of Me" Letters to Amelia invites us to hold our heroines close and to take heart -- it is gentle and joyous, full of tenderness, alive and sturdy with hope." Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault"An understated literary work with a historical underpinning, Letters to Amelia celebrates singular desires and pays homage to intimacy in the face of social scrutiny." Foreword Reviews"Letters to Amelia made for a charming read... This was an absolutely lovely, lighthearted, and beautifully written story." - Avocado Diaries
£16.16
Biblioasis Dark Like Under
£13.29
Breakwater Books The Crane
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£20.80
Unbound The Story of John Nightly
Book Synopsis'I loved the creativity, the unpredictability, its dazzling coverage of so many ideas' Rob Cowan'Superb . . . An original character and an original book' David Quantick, Record CollectorCan John Nightly be brought back to life again?John Nightly (b. 1948) finds his dimension in pop music, the art form of his time. His solo album becomes one of 1970's bestselling records – but success turns out to have side effects.Supermaxed in LA after a dazzling career, John renounces his gift, denying music and his very being, until he is rediscovered in Cornwall thirty years later by a teenage saviour dude, who persuades him to restore and complete his quasi-proto-multimedia eco-Mass, the Mink Bungalow Requiem.This epic novel mixes real and imagined lives in the tale of a young singer-songwriter, to tell a story about creativity at the highest level – the level of genius.Trade Review'Superb ... an original character and an original book' David Quantick, Record Collector
£18.04
Y Lolfa Haf o Hyder
Book SynopsisA volume of 7 short stories and 7 poems/brand new songs on the theme of wellbeing. Each one is uplifting, and is written by well-known authors such as Eurig Salisbury and Llyr Gwyn Lewis and new authors such as Nia Morais and Ifan Pritchard. Published jointly by Y Lolfa and the National Eisteddfod.
£10.18
Cranthorpe Millner Publishers In the Heart of a Soulless Vessel
Book SynopsisWith the fate of The Arvum hanging in the balance, fledgeling sage Fjona Sarsen and her mentor Perciville Harper must fight to save their home from the deadly Eight Afflictions.
£10.79
Canelo A New Life in Amsterdam
£9.49
Footnote Press Ltd The Grand Scheme of Things
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£8.99
Viking House Hope Blooms in Tuppenny Bridge
£14.24
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Secrets of Swanfield House
£11.39
Storm Publishing Ltd The Innocent Wife
£11.99
Pushkin Press The Tumbling Girl
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY DAGGER1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice. Together they navigate London, from its high-class clubs to its murky underbelly. But as the bodies pile up, they must rely on one another if they're going to track down the killer; and make it out alive . . . The first in a sharp, witty series of Victorian mystery novels, The Tumbling Girl is sure to delight. For fans of Sarah Waters, Elizabeth Macneal, and Miss Scarlet and the Duke.
£10.44
Pushkin Press Half Light
Book Synopsis'In this remarkable novel, Mahesh Rao gives voice to the forgotten and the ignored, and my lord, what a voice it is. Half Light is steeped to a sublime perfection, an astonishing literary achievement' Rabih Alameddine, author of The Wrong End of the TelescopeHigh in the mountains of Darjeeling, a landslide traps the guests and staff of a crumbling hotel. Cooped up inside, two men exchange lingering glances. For Neville, this is one of many thrilling encounters - urgent kisses in stairwells and parked cars. But for hotel employee Pavan, their connection threatens to unravel everything he has kept hidden.Years later, their paths collide once more, surrounded by the towering skyscrapers and ghostly smog of Mumbai. Neville is now a restless graduate, adrift in the city, while Pavan has started a new life, away from the hills. When Neville strides into his workplace demanding a meeting, their flirtation turns fraught, and long-buried secrets threaten to tumble into the light.Set on the cusp of India's landmark ruling to decriminalise homosexuality, this is a tender, richly atmospheric and elegantly wry story of outlawed desire -and the fragile hope for a life beyond concealment.Praise for Half Light:'A stunning novel, gorgeously written' Kamila Shamsie, author of Best of Friends'A searing tour de force of shame, sex, love and identity. I was enchanted' Thomas Stewart, author of Real Boys'Tender and timeless. A quiet story of hope and survival that took my breath away' Soula Emmanuel, author of Wild Geese 'More than meets the expectations aroused by his debut' Patrick Gale, author of Mother's Boy
£17.09
Bedford Square Publishers I Died at Fallow Hall
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking, genuinely contemporary take on the country house murder mystery: the perfect combination of literary and crime novel.
£9.49
Bedford Square Publishers The Smoke in Our Eyes
Book SynopsisAn action-filled coming of age novel about love, vengeance, corruption, and justice by acclaimed author.
£9.49
Canelo Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
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£9.49
Andrews UK Limited The Forgotten Son
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£17.99
Andrews UK Limited Annas Garden
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£8.54
Muswell Press Queer Life, Queer Love: An anthology
Book SynopsisThe anthology comprises 42 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. This is writing that explores characters, stories and experiences beyond the mainstream. Celebrating the fascinating, the forbidden, the subversive, and even the mundane, but in essence, the view from outside.Trade Review'I'm incredibly moved to be co-editing this important anthology dedicated to honour the memory of a beautiful life and am excited to read submissions that reflect the full complexities of living a queer life, in whatever form they take.' Golnoosh Nour. 'Championing new and emerging writing is one of my passions as demonstrated by my tenure at WHSmith Travel where I curated the Celebration of 100 Years of Gay Writing and the successful Fresh Talent promotion for over five years.' Matt Bates. "A brilliant initiative'. Paul Burston
£8.99
Johnny Magory Business Lily-May Hare Today Gone Tomorrow
Book SynopsisLily-May has always been fascinated by hares, But it's not just their behaviour and looks she likes; she loves the old stories and legends her grandad tells her about the hares being shapeshifters. A determined Lily-May forms a plan, going through their secret tunnel into the magical wild alone, without Johnny or Ruairi. She is going to find out the truth about the hares once and for all. But has her curiosity put her in grave danger?A story filled with adventure, Irish wildlife and heritage.
£7.20
Johnny Magory Business Lily-May Foul faeries 2nd Edition
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£12.59
Birlinn General Beyond Summerland
Book SynopsisWhat happens when ordinary people are faced with extraordinary choices?Jean Parris was a child when her adored father was taken away by the Nazis. As she and her mother wait anxiously for news, the life Jean thought she knew begins to fall apart.Hazel Le Tourneur has never conformed to the island's idea of perfect womanhood. But is she the worst kind of collaborator an informer?In the summer of 1945, the Liberation of Jersey has unleashed a different kind of war: one of suspicion, accusation and revenge. For among the heroism and sacrifice, there has also been betrayal and corruption. And while the beautiful island is permanently scarred by gun towers and bunkers, its people must learn to live with a different kind of wound the desire for truth.''Beyond Summerlandisa beautifully written testamentto both the resilience and duplicity of human nature'' -Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost ThingsThe second novel from New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lecoat.
£9.49
Birlinn General Summer Hours
Book SynopsisA short, vivid, wry debut novel from a fresh literary voice who has just won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust.Set in the haze of an unusually hot Edinburgh summer, Summer Hoursis a story about youth and desire, class and wealth, secrets and mistakes, sex and obsession.
£10.80
Darf Publishers Ltd My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the
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BOXER The Pocket Book Of Golf Jokes 1
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£6.99
Tangent Books Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 11
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£11.40
Tangent Books The Mystery Of Ernie Taylor's Abdomen And Other
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£9.50
UEA Publishing Project Macbeth, Macbeth
Book Synopsis ‘A miracle, an instant classic.’ Slavoj Zizek, philosopher The tragedy is done, the tyrant Macbeth dead. The time is free. But for how long? As Macduff pursues dreams of national revival, smaller lives are seeding. In the ruins of Dunsinane, the Porter tries to keep his three young boys safe from the nightmare of history. In a nunnery deep in Birnam Wood, a girl attempts to forget what she lost in war. Flitting between them, a tortured clairvoyant trembles with the knowledge of what's to come. A collaboration between two of the world's most eminent Shakespeare scholars, "Macbeth, Macbeth" is a unique mix of creative fiction and literary criticism that charts a new way of doing both, sparking a whole new world from the embers of Shakespeare's original tragedy. ”Macbeth, Macbeth” weaves a thread that enrichens the original classic with the manic energy of Tristram Shandy, the grim intensity of Crime and Punishment, and the existential absurdity of Waiting for Godot. 'A thrilling re-imagination of Shakespeare’s darkest play.' Lucy Bailey, theatre director‘Shakespeare, I suspect, would have been delighted.’ Don Paterson, poet
£11.69
UEA Publishing Project The Sick List
Book Synopsis'The Sick List operates on the far side of literature.' John Schad In this novel, an unnamed academic in an unnamed contemporary university, relates his obsession with his tutor, Gordon. He pores over the increasingly bizarre mis-readings in Gordon’s annotations in a strange selection of stolen library books. Is Gordon unraveling a mystery? Or is his own mind unraveling? Meanwhile, an epidemic of catatonia breaks out; academics are found slumped and unconscious at their desks. Is reading itself the cause of this sickness? Is the only escape to return to illiteracy?Witty, moving, and beautifully written, The Sick List plays with the dividing line between deploring and exemplifying what it most despises. Inspired by the work of the Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard, it considers how the minds of educated people are moulded by both the breadth of literary culture and the narrowness of academic institutions. ‘The Sick List is about menace, about a menace (Gordon), and is written in the voice of a menace. It reads like one of the pen-portraits of surreal ultra-violence in Bernhard's Gargoyles, where education turns out to be the most deceitful panacea of all.' Katharine Craik
£11.69
UEA Publishing Project Archive Fevers
Book SynopsisArchive Fevers offers a new generation of psychologically-engaged readers a playful queer/feminist interpretation of Jaques Derrida’s Archive Fever (1995). Through its creative critical form, the book demonstrates the unconscious life of research while interrogating the often misunderstood, overlooked or misrepresented landscape of individual gender-queer experiences of therapy. Utilising the framework of experimental narrative fiction, Blake elucidates Derrida’s concept of archive fever, Freud’s seminal concept of the death drive and Avita Ronell’s concept of haunted writing. The relationship between anthropology, psychoanalysis and surrealism during the early 20th century is examined throughout. Surrealism, though shunned by anthropology and psychotherapy, asserts an urgent contemporary usefulness. The role of technology in psychotherapy comes under necessary scrutiny, the ever-chainging backdrop of a global pandemic adding yet another layer of relevance to current phsychotherapy practice. The resulting narrative brings to the fore the bizarre, messy, disturbing, sometimes gruesome aspects of archival and ethnographic research that are usually left out of formal accounts.
£11.69
UEA Publishing Project Textual Non Sense
Book Synopsis'Absolutely the most important book of our era.' Virginia Woolf Textual Non Sense is mischievous, minimalist, and revolutionary: a short fuse intended to spark a fundamental re-thinking of how we engage with notions of canon. Classic texts are mangled, quotes are mis-attributed, and great authors are misidentified as Robert Crawford brings literature and chaos theory together in a romance made on Tinder. William Shakespeare of the School of Literature and Bookmaking introduces a survey of writers' struggles. John Buchan provides his guide to writing a best-seller (blotting paper plays a key role). Professor Mike Foucault employs Big Data to investigate the new discipline, ‘Creaticism', or 'Critive Writing.'Humour and literary criticism tend to go together like apples and arsenic. Textual Non Sense argues that humour is an essential corrective--a missing ingredient to a cure for the arthritis and calcification of academic literary criticism. ‘I just can’t wait for the American edition!’ Emily Dickinson
£11.69
Aurora Metro Publications Scarlet Sunday
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Eyewear Publishing The Complete Brute
Book SynopsisMALCOLM BENNETT & AIDAN HUGHES -THE COMPLETE BRUTE!SHEATH-BURSTING ROMANCE! TWO-FISTED ACTION! HARD-BOILED ADVENTURE!IN A SELFLESS BID TO RESEARCH STORIES FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS, THESE PLUCKY PROLETARIAN POETS HAVE HURLED THEMSELVES INTO A LIFE OF DANGER & IMMERSED THEMSELVES IN THE MURKY WORLD OF CRIME, GUNS & DRUGS. IT WAS A SACRIFICE THAT WAS TO BRING GREAT REWARDSTHIS BOOK! KAZUO ISHIGURO, BOOKER PRIZE WINNERTHE COLLECTED CLASSIFIED PULP NASTIESTHE RETURN OF THE LATE 80S NOIR-INSPIRED COMIC CULT! NOW REBORN & UNLEASHED IN HARDBACK!! BIGGER, BOLDER & FUNNIER THAN EVER! TOUGH & DYNAMIC. DOWN & DIRTY!! BRAZEN TALES OF CONDOM-TIGHTENING PROPORTIONS! PACKED WITH HILARIOUS NON-STOP LAFFS!! THE COMPLETE STELLA-SOAKEDBRUTE!STREET POETRY NARRATIVES WITH BLOOD ON THEIR KNUCKLES! SHORT, SHARP, SATIRICAL PULP SHOCKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS THAT YOU CAN SEE FROM SPACE!MINIMALIST PROSE, MAXIMALIST ACTION THAT EXPLODES OFF THE PAGE! BLUNT. BRUTAL. BRILLIANT!TIME OUTMASTERLY THE LITERARY REVIEWBRUTAL, PUB-DRAINING BLOKES! HARD-CORE TWO-FISTED ACTION! WRITTEN BY MALCOLM BENNETT & ILLUSTRATED BY AIDAN HUGHES, BRUTE! LAMPOONS SEVERAL LITERARY CONVENTIONS IN SHORT, CONCISE BURSTS DERIVED FROM TABLOID HEADLINES & PULP NOVELS. ORIGINALLY, ONLY SEVEN ISSUES OFBRUTE!WERE PUBLISHED AS PAMPHLETS (1984-88). IT QUICKLY BECAME A CULT FAVOURITE & SPAWNED AN ANIMATED TV SERIES, A 30,000 SELLING 150 PAGE PAPERBACK (OUT-OF-PRINT SINCE 1989) & COMIC STRIPS INBLITZMAGAZINE &THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD.THE COMPLETE BRUTE!COLLECTS & DOUBLES IN TOTAL THE FISTFULS OF BRUTE! STORIES FEATURING COWBOYS, HOOLIGANS, PIG FARMERS, ROMANS, SAILORS & SQUADDIES. IT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES UNTIL EACH ONE CONTAINS A BAR. THE REST, AS THEY SAY, WILL BE HISTORY...
£21.25
Mensch Publishing Rock and Roll is Life Part I
Book SynopsisRock and Roll is Life pays homage to a formative period in music history, at the height of the Helium Kids' popularity. Three decades after their heyday in the late 60s and early 70s, the band's publicist Nick Du Pont looks back on the turbulent trajectory of the supergroup, traversing the bacchanalian excesses and tragedies of a golden age in British music.
£14.24
Speculative Books Ltd Lazy Susan
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£7.59
Clairview Books The Living Climate
Book SynopsisA scientific study challenging the prevailing climate change narrative.
£18.00
Fly on the Wall Press Pigskin: Shorts Season
Book SynopsisSomething strange is happening to the animals on the farm. A pig turns into bacon, chickens grow breadcrumbs instead of feathers, a cow turns to leather, a goat excretes cheese. As food becomes scarce and looming 'pot-bellies' threaten to invade the safety of the sty, Pig knows he must get to the bottom of this phenomenon or face imminent death.
£5.99
Tippermuir Books Limited A clear Divide A History of Sectarianism in Scotland
£11.39
UEA Publishing Project Dear Knausgaard
Book SynopsisIn a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.Trade Review‘Kim Adrian’s loving struggle with Knausgaard is the kind of criticism I most enjoy - personal, wonderfully engaged, intense but somehow simultaneously light-footed, and extremely intelligent. The brilliance of her feminist critique is that it acutely exposes vulnerabilities in Knausgaard’s male universalism while affectionately acknowledging the scope and appeal of his inevitably gendered voice. A delight from start to finish.’ James Wood, literary critic ‘On display is a rigorous mind, a fiery intellect, a curious and engaged reader. Adrian brings lofty ideas - questions of attention and meaning, of the troubling permeability between inside and outside, of reality itself - down to the meat-and-feeling human level.’ Boston Globe
£11.69
UEA Publishing Project Unsteady Earth
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£6.99
CHARCO PR Aguas de estuario
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£10.79
