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Tangent Books Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 15: 15
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£11.40
Little Toller Books We Came By Sea
Book SynopsisWe Came by Sea is the untold story of the small boats crisis, a story of the volunteers who help thousands of refugees in Calais and of lifeboat crews running one of the biggest search and rescue operations of all time. It is a journey through an unexplored Britain which deserves to be celebrated.
£18.00
Scribe Publications Manny and the Baby
Book SynopsisLondon, 1936. Two sisters are ready to take the city and the world by storm. Bath, 2012. Two young Black men are figuring out who they are, and who they want to become. Manny Powell is forthright, intellectual, and determined to make her mark on the London literary scene. Her younger sister, Rita The Baby', just wants to dance. Chasing their dreams across smoky Soho jazz clubs, they soon find themselves part of the burgeoning Black ambition movement, and must learn how to navigate it as women. As tensions rise, and fascism and war snap at their heels, Rita finds herself drawn to the mysterious mimic and trumpeter, Ezekiel Brown, from Jamaica, and the trio are faced with choices that will alter their lives forever. Itai has fled London to his late father's flat in Bath. Listening to cassette tapes his father made, he realises there is a lot he doesn't know about the man's life who is Rita? Why did his father record her life story? And might she hold the answers to Itai's questions? Meanwhile, his developing friendship with Josh, a young athlete who moonlights as a dealer to fund his training, is on unsteady ground. As the country prepares for the 2012 Olympics, Josh is under increasing pressure from his bosses to find out just what the hell Itai is really doing in their city. Manny and the Baby is a character-driven debut novel, full of heart, about what it means to be Black and British, now and in the past.
£9.49
Legend Press Ltd Home Bird
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£9.49
Honford Star Astral Season, Beastly Season
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£9.49
Firehorse Enterprises Ltd Road to True North
£9.64
HopeRoad Publishing Ltd A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
Book SynopsisOutsiders often expect Muslim women to be timid, conservative, or submissive, the reality is different. While some of these authors express a quiet piety and explore poignant situations, others use black humour and biting satire, or play with possibilities. Still others shade into the territory of a Muslim Fifty Shades of Grey, creating grey areas where the mainstream media sees only black and white. The stories also reflect on gender differences, lesbian desire,and many other subjects.Table of ContentsForeword;Introduction;The Cat That Came in with the Dark;Love Letter;Ghazal;Her Trials; Boneland;Tears and Tantrums;Waiting for the Bus;Marriage of Convenience; Rearranged;Peter Pochmann Goes to Dinner;Moments in Time;Frida's Breakfast;A Simple Nature;Proper and Perfect?; Acid Reflux;Heartbeat
£10.44
Constellations Press Belly Full
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£18.00
Parthian Books The Plankton Collector
Book SynopsisIn this atmospheric novella, the mysterious Plankton Collector visits members of a family torn apart by grief and regret. He comes in different guises.
£7.60
Legend Press Ltd The Absolutes
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£9.49
The Mercier Press Devil Take It
£14.39
Wilkinson Publishing Transported
£19.12
Fireside Industries Daughters of Muscadine
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£15.20
Unnamed Press But the Girl
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£15.30
Islandport Press The Sea Flower
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£17.06
Islandport Press The Islanders
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£18.00
Delphinium Books Oriana A Novel
Book SynopsisWhen a Hollywood producer comes to Oriana at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfolds of her gutsy career rise as a journalist, her tragic love, and her greatest regret.Oriana Fallaci was born a rebel. She fought beside her father at age fourteen in Italy?s Resistance against the Nazis and overcame poverty, the lack of a university education, and relentless sexism in the newsroom. By 1973 when she moved to New York, Oriana Fallaci was hailed by Newsweek as the greatest interviewer of her day. She became famous for her courageous and hard-hitting interviews with Kissinger, Arafat, Meir, Khomeini and other world leaders?not to mention the most prominent celebrities and artists of her day.That same year, 1973, she did what no journalist is supposed to do: she fell in love with one of her subjects, Alexander Panagoulis, the Greek poet and hero. She was 44, he was 34; they lived in different countries. It didn?t matter. Oriana had finally found what she longed for: a full life. But can a woman ever have it all, or does life always exact a price?Oriana is the first novel about the glamorous and fearless Italian journalist whom Christiane Amanpour has called her role model for asking tough questions?and who holds a place beside Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters when naming world-class interviewers. This biographical novel tells the story of one of the first women to break through the glass ceiling of journalism, a woman who wasn?t afraid to speak truth to power and who revolutionized her field, all while trying to balance her career with love and happiness.For readers who loved Hidden Figures and stories about women who succeed as women in realms traditionally reserved for men.
£13.29
Two Dollar Radio Absence
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£15.26
Steerforth Press Sister Deborah
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£12.44
Spiegel & Grau Tiananmen Square
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£17.10
New Vessel PR A Fictional Inquiry
£14.62
Noemi Press Choose This Now
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£17.10
Zibby Books The Undercurrent
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£19.99
Zibby Books Pearce Oysters
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£25.19
Blair Holding On To Nothing
£38.62
John F Blair Publisher The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush
Book SynopsisYoung Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miracle-making novel.When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic events—upending the lives of Leonard’s rigidly God-fearing mother, June; his deeply conflicted father, Emmett; and his best friend, Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big Sugar move together toward awakening.Susan Gilmore’s love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee roots. She’s the daughter of a revival preacher’s son, brought up on the land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist Lee Smith says, a “homespun Pilgrim’s Progress.”
£17.99
University of Louisiana Last of the Red Hot Poppas
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£17.95
Belle Point Press, LLC The Diamondbacks
£16.12
Bookpress Publishing Moonshine by Moonlight
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£26.06
Bookpress Publishing Moonshine by Moonlight
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£17.95
Sibylline Press Widows Walk
£14.24
McNally Editions Sakinas Kiss
£13.29
Unnamed Press Henry Henry
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£12.99
Unnamed Press The Wolf Wants Answers
£12.34
Unnamed Press A Short Introduction to Anneliese
Book SynopsisA Short Introduction to Anneliese is the second volume in author James Elkins’ multi-volume mega-novel Five Strange Languages being published by Unnamed Press, all of which trace the final year of Samuel Emmer’s life before he disappears. When Samuel Emmer meets unemployed biologist Anneliese Glur for dinner during his stopover in Frankfurt, he has no notion of what to expect. Anneliese is an old friend and former colleague of his boss, and he agrees to dinner for no other reason than he has nothing better to do. As it turns out, Anneliese is a torrent of observations, digressions, theories, hypotheses, and resentments. She complains about her niece, who lives with her and her brother Paul, and about their uncle Hans, whose dementia haunts Anneliese’s concerns about the state of her own mind. She deconstructs the “awfulness” of language, calling it an ill-fitting suit, and challenges the validity of memory. Most surprising is what Samuel comes to realize by the end of this strange dinner: that the insufferable but deeply compelling Anneliese is conducting a kind of interview with him - the purposes of which are not entirely clear. A month later, back home in Guelph, Samuel finds himself on the phone with Anneliese, listening to her once again. Her monologues are wild, seemingly endless, often laugh-out loud funny, and occasionally repellent; but nothing is random, for Anneliese Glur is systematically introducing Samuel not just to her work, but to a breakdown in her mind, which she describes as thirteen distinct problems in her thinking. She is fascinated by long books, and she tells Samuel what she thinks of dozens of books including epic poems, encyclopedias, Joyce, Proust, Aquinas, Velikovsky, Roussel, Wallace, Murnane, Sade, Gibbon, Schopenhauer, and Ossian. She is no longer sure that she is sane, and she needs Samuel to read her book - a comprehensive theory of the essence of life, that transcends category or definition - to see if it makes sense. But first, through a series of long conversations, she introduces him to the world of her mind. A Short Introduction to Anneliese has notes, which comprise a separate narrative at the end of the novel, written by Samuel in extreme old age (whom readers will recognize from Weak in Comparison to Dreams). This Samuel scarcely remembers Anneliese. Instead, her way of talking sounds to him like music. Her startling ideas have evaporated, leaving only melodies.
£28.50
Archipelago Books The Harmattan Winds
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£14.44
Volossal Publishing Low Worm Diet
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£15.99
Bindery Books Dust Settles North
Book SynopsisIt’s 2012, and post-revolution Egypt is sparking with political energy—but Hannah and Zain are numb.The flight from New York to Cairo is long—longer still for two siblings on a journey to bury their mother. When they discover their father’s unforgivable betrayal, what’s left of their family crumbles.Hannah gives up her spot at Columbia Law to remain in Egypt, where she navigates romantic entanglements and a new culture. Back in America, Zain’s self-destructive behavior begins to catch up with him, leaving him to wonder whether he’s any different from his father.When the siblings reunite in Cairo months later, Zain is nearing rock bottom, and Hannah finds herself in the middle of the Arab Spring uprising. Together they confront shared secrets and reconcile their conservative upbringing with their new beliefs as adults. Will they heal together, or has the loss of their only bridge—their mother—set them permanently adrift?A tender reflection on the effects of grief and loss, this deeply felt novel explores how siblings come together to mend a fractured family and, in the process, find themselves.
£13.99
Yen Press Date a Live Vol. 14 Light Novel
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£12.80
Yen Press Babel Vol. 4
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£14.00
£13.29
Little, Brown & Company Hell Is Dark with No Flowers Vol. 2 light novel
Book SynopsisA letter hinting at an impending murder and dismemberment is delivered to Shiroshi's door, and he and Seiji set out to investigate. They find themselves venturing to a remote island dominated by a towering Baroque mansion, where all manner of surprises await them including a beautiful living doll and a young boy who calls himself Shiroshi's brother!
£11.69
Yen Press The Vexations of a ShutIn Vampire Princess Vol. 9
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£13.50
Yen Press Riviere and the Land of Prayer Vol. 2 light novel
Book SynopsisONE PERSON'S TRASH...Can you pleeease try to be serious for once, Miss Riviere? Ugh, anyhoo, welcome back to Riviere Antiques! The cases Miss Riviere and I will tackle this time around include searching for a serial killer, helping out an insomniac, crashing a secret party, collecting super-important sancta, sharing some love advice with a friend, and keeping the peace at a doll exhibition. Meanwhile, Antiques Carredura and their dangerous sancta are up to the same old shady business. Surely, the trio of myself, Miss Riviere, and the Ashen Witch, Elaina, can solve these problems without any complications at all, right...? Right?!
£12.34
Yen Press The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy Vol. 12 Light Novel
Book SynopsisThe Phillet Company, determined to complete the final stage of the Demon Sword Project, has taken Elfiné prisoner. Riselia and the others attempt a desperate rescue, but it may already be too lateMeanwhile, Leonis faces the Lord of Beasts, and danger finds its way to the once-safe halls of Excalibur Academy. As the eighteenth platoon works to free Elfiné, Leonis must make a difficult decision.
£14.00
Little, Brown & Company The BS Situation of Tougetsu Umidori Vol. 3 light novel
£11.69
Yen Press Kusunokis Garden of Gods Vol. 2 Light Novel
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£12.80
Yen Press Spy Classroom Vol. 9 Light Novel
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£12.80
