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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Time of the Butcherbird
Book SynopsisIn his final novel, renowned author Alex La Guma explores the tensions of a South African town fraught with the desire for revenge.Out in the flat, featureless countryside, a small mining town in South Africa is refused access to water by their oppressors. Knowing that the rain is their last chance for survival, all they can do is wait...As the dry summer wears on, the white Afrikaner townspeople are unaware of the storm brewing around them as, deep in the bush, a shepherd recalls the riddle of the butcherbird.Glimpsing into precolonial days and the aftermath of the Boer War, Time of the Butcherbird is a powerful reminder of the communities that were wrecked by conflict and dispossessed of their own land. ''The greatest South African novelist of the 20th century.'' The Times''A central figure alongside Chinua Achebe [in] the making and consolidation of modern African literature.'' Ngugi wa Thiong'oTrade ReviewThe greatest South African novelist of the 20th century. * The Times *[Alex La Guma] is a central figure alongside Chinua Achebe [in] the making and consolidation of modern African literature. -- Ngugi wa Thiong’oOne of the world's great novelists... a man who was not only a prodigiously talented writer but also a valiant hero of the anti-apartheid struggle. * The Root *
£14.24
£12.34
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC Mushoku Tensei Redundant Reincarnation Light Novel Vol. 3
£13.49
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC Peerless Novel Vol. 4
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£15.29
Yen Press Rascal Does Not Dream of Girlfriend Light Novel
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£14.00
Yen Press Kunon the Sorcerer Can See Vol. 4 light novel
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£13.29
Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood Fitzwarrens Well The Ladys
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£16.99
Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Scathlock Woman
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£17.09
Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Templars Promise
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£16.19
Andrews UK Limited The Lost Skin
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£9.49
Andrews UK Limited Other Wars Other Worlds
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£16.99
Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Knights of the Apocalypse
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£11.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC No Past No Present No Future
Book SynopsisIn his bold and pioneering novel, No Past, No Present, No Future, Yulisa Amadu Maddy explores the dynamics between three young boys as their lives slip quickly into chaos and tragedy. At a missionary school in colonial West Africa, three students from very different backgrounds forge a friendship in an effort to forget the difficulties they face at home. But when one of the boys betrays the other, a series of disastrous events spiral into out of control. After finally leaving school, their paths cross once again in Europe but prejudice and diverging loyalties put the brotherhood they once had into question. How can they ever dream of a future together when the ghosts of the past are determined to haunt their present?
£15.29
Denpa Chitose
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Vertical Inc. As a Reincarnated Aristocrat Ill Use My Appraisal
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£12.59
Yen Press The Brilliant Healers New Life in the Shadows
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£14.39
J-Novel Club Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 5 Volume 7 Light
Book SynopsisFerdinand senses danger on the horizon. Dark clouds hang over him, twisting and turning into a dense miasma of unease. Meanwhile, Rozemyne prepares for winter, conscious that her move to the Sovereignty is fast approaching. Her fourth term at the Royal Ac
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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.
£10.24
Andrews UK Limited The Forgotten Son
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£16.99
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
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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Yen Press Agents of the Four Seasons Vol. 5
Book SynopsisNo matter how dark the night, the sun will always rise.Kaya Fugeki is a teenage girl living in Enishi, an island at the northern tip of the Yamato archipelago. She brings the day to Yamato as the Archer of Dawn, granted powers similar to those of the Agents of the Four Seasons. The young goddess attends school along with the people she serves, yet nobody except for her handsome young retainer knows she is the country's Day. Thus begins Kaya and Yuzuru's story.
£999.99
Juggernaut Publications India The Great Indian Nature Trail With Chunmun
Book SynopsisJoin Chunmun on her adventures as she photographs, writes and learns about all the new creatures she spots.
£17.50
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Afternoon
Book SynopsisSet in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in theate ''60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young student finding theove of hisife and two young women whoseives intersect with his at different points of time. It is also the story of a Kashmiri Muslim girl who carried memories and impressions of her home state but grew up in Delhi. The other woman, an American Field Service worker from Upper East Side New York, findsife taking unexpected turns on a short field visit to India. Her visit confirms her decision to go to Berkeley instead of the Seven Sisters where she had also got admission because of her academic brilliance. The Cold War mentality and way ofooking at each other had noteft either America or the USSR. Conscription and a highly unpopular Vietnam War were raging. The Establishment in Berkeley and elsewhere in California was as determined as the idealistic students to get its way, which meant crushing their movements. There are threats to these relationships from other interested parties and events. The decisions that are involved in inter-continental relationships. The belief that there is nothing more important thanove. Afternoon best reflects how ourives are shaped by the choices we make and factors beyond our control.
£11.99
Double 9 Books In the Mountains
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Yen Press The Only Thing Id Do in a NoBoysAllowed Game World Vol. 3 novel
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£12.34
Yen Press The Contract Between a Specter and a Servant Vol. 5 light novel
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Yen Press The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady Vol. 8.5 novel
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£12.34
Yen Press Goblin Slayer Side Story Year One Vol. 4 light novel
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Yen Press Kings Proposal Vol. 7 light novel
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£12.34
Subplot Belle Isle Detroits Game Changer
£22.09
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling Light Novel
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£13.49
Crooked Lane Books Sing Me Home to Carolina
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£16.19
Double 9 Books Consequences Book II
£10.79
Rising Action The Enemy of Time
£14.80
Penguin Publishing Group Five Brothers
Book SynopsisOne woman learns the secrets of the five Jaeger brothers in the new romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas.On the other side of town, in the dark glades, under the rain…Macon is the oldest. Thirty-one. Ex-Marine. I don?t think I?ve ever seen him smile.Army is twenty-eight. A single dad with the most beautiful green eyes. He has no idea who he is, if not a Jaeger brother.Iron will be in prison soon. You?d never think it to meet him. He?s a nice guy, actually. But he can?t stop reacting to everything.Dallas is the one I hate. Twenty-one, cruel, and selfish. He takes and then throws away whatever?s left.And Trace is mine. Or he was for about two seconds. No one can tame him for long. Not that I ever wanted to. It was fun, but now I need to go home. Back to my side of the tracks. Away from the swamps and these men. To my parents? big house. On my clean street. Where I?m never dirty or messy or hot. And I will. I?ll leave first thing tomorrow morning.I just want to crash on the couch tonight.Their house is dark and quiet, everyone else is asleep. Except for one. He sees me crying and comes at me from behind. I let him wrap his arms around my body and hold me tightly. His breath is on my neck, his fingers are in my hair, and he doesn?t stop there.I don?t think it was Trace.
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Footnote Press Ltd Mongrel
Book Synopsis. Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of desire, isolation, belonging and ultimately, hope. 5 Star Reader Reviews: 'Utterly captivating'
£9.49
Penguin Putnam Inc Talking at Night
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£12.41
Seven Seas Entertainment Lout of Counts Family Novel Vol. 1
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£999.99
Random House Publishing Group The Guest
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.“Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.”—The New York TimesA BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK • VULTURE’S INAUGURAL BEACH BOOK READS BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Bookreporter“Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another.”Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline’s The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.
£10.62
Penguin Publishing Group All That Life Can Afford
£23.20
Random House USA Inc Death Troopers Star Wars Legends
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£15.30
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC 7th Time Loop The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree
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£999.99
Hanover Square Press The Trunk
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£12.88
