Fiction books to excite, provoke and spark a conversation. Debut authors, award winners, bestsellers & lost gems - our range of fiction titles will leave you spoilt for choice.
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Alma Books Ltd Pygmalion
Book SynopsisWhen professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator – and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the role of women in society. Universally regarded as Shaw’s most successful work, Pygmalion – here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 – has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth’s undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.
£6.99
Canongate Books Just Once
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Everyman Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Book SynopsisThomas Mann's first great novel, written at the age of 25, is an epic study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the nineteenth century. The novel is based on Mann's own experience as the son of a German merchant prince, but it goes far beyond his own experience in its sweep and comprehensiveness.
£17.09
Everyman Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life
Book SynopsisDescribed by Henry James as 'one of the first of the classics' and so regarded ever since, MADAME BOVARY has touched generations of readers and moulded generations of writers. The story of a little woman in a provincial town who dreams of happiness and then perishes by her own hand is worked up by Flaubant into a profound and heart rending study of human bondage.
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Vintage Publishing Short Cuts
Book Synopsis'I look at all of Carver's work as just one story, for his stories are all occurences, all about things that just happen to people and cause their lives to take a turn... In formulating the mosaic of the film Short Cuts, which is based on these nine stories and a poem, 'Lemonade', I've tried to do the same thing- to give the audience one look... But it all began here. I was a reader turning these pages. Trying on these lives' - Robert Altman in his introduction.Trade ReviewRaymond Carver's stories can be counted amongst the masterpieces of American fiction * New York Times *The stories overflow with danger, excitement, mystery and the possibility of life... His eye is so clear it almost breaks your heart * Washington Post *One of America's most original, truest voices -- Salman RushdieSuperb -- Ian McEwan
£9.49
Bradwell Books Derbyshire Ghost Stories: Shiver Your Way from
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The Quince Tree Press A Season in Sinji
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£11.46
Candlestick Press Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Clouds
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Brothers
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Candlestick Press Ten Sexy Poems
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Wildlife
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Arachne Press Vindication: poems by six women: 2018
Book SynopsisThe third of our #WomenVote100 Anthologies:a showcase for poets Arachne has previously published in anthologies, giving an opportunity to explore their writing in greater depth.These are poems made of myth and family, origins and anger, journeys and home: witty, clever, beautiful and sometimes harsh.Whilst not directly reflecting on the experience of women fighting for the vote, the concerns of women are foremost and are passionately addressed. My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, as if they were in perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.From Vindication by Anne Macaulay, a found poem based on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Bradwell Books Lancashire Ghost Stories: Shiver Your Way Around
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Honno Ltd Harvest Home
Book SynopsisA gripping Gothic tale of possession, madness and murder - a tautly-written psychological study of a man driven mad by desire which draws on history, legend and superstitions.
£11.69
Old Street Publishing Wedding Station
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Stewed Rhubarb Press Splenectomy
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New Writing North His Dark Sun
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Pushkin Press The Fishermen
Book SynopsisIn a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers - the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen - use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another. This prophecy breaks their strong bond and unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions. Passionate and bold, The Fishermen is a breathtakingly beautiful novel firmly rooted in the best of African storytelling. With this powerful debut, Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature.
£9.49
Smith|Doorstop Books Threadbare
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£5.96
Sixth Element Publishing The Episode
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£11.24
Valley Press Spun Glass
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Mensch Publishing Good Scammer
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World Editions Ltd The Performance
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£11.89
Old Street Publishing Murder at the Castle
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Nine Arches Press The Snow Globe
Book SynopsisJenny Pagdin's powerful, sensitive and stark debut poetry collection details a first-hand experience of postpartum psychosis. Threaded through this book are extraordinary and courageous poems that illuminate, that settle and unsettle in equal measure that move through illness and recovery, through snow flurry and sunshine, towards love.
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Nine Arches Press Belief Systems
Book SynopsisThe poems in Tamar Yoseloff's Belief Systems act as a call to make something worthwhile from the wreckage of our world, in the spirit of the radical artists she evokes, such as John Latham, John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg visionaries who located power and beauty in what is forgotten.
£11.69
Candlestick Press Christmas Movies
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Fairlight Books Small Wars in Madrid
Book SynopsisDavid Aguilera's life is falling apart. Faced with the prospect of losing his family, he turns to those who are most important to him - his closest friend Marce; his Catholic adoptive mother; his Jewish birth mother; and his estranged wife Margalit, herself Jewish - to confront his conflicting identities and decide the man he wants to become.
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i2i Publishing Brexit Opportunities: A Novel
Book SynopsisPaul Torce, Memoirs Vol. 1: Brexit Opportunities. “There are plenty of opportunities to be had from the Brexit, if you know how to spot them.” Take it from Paul Torce, American Patriot, and Senior Partner in the hugely successful global consulting phenomenon known, to a select and extremely wealthy few, as Morgan-Torce Associates, Paul sees opportunities everywhere. It's the secret of his humungous success. The Brexit was obviously going to have opportunities coming out of its ears. All Paul had to do was to be in exactly the right place at precisely the opportune moment and spot them before anyone else did. This, the first volume of Paul's riveting memoirs, traces some of his movements around London, Brussels, Washington DC and Moscow between June 2016 and September 2017, a period so filled with opportunities he could hardly keep pace with them. From the selection of the new Prime Minister through the negotiating quagmire of the Exit talks to the General Election of June 2017, Paul's influence was both invisible and characteristically decisive. Of course, things don't always go to plan, even if you're Paul Torce. There's his loyal but gaffe-prone business partner, Charles, to contend with; and there are the occasional moments when he feels the political sands shift beneath his feet, and fears he's been hung out to dry. But on the whole, Paul has the Brexit opportunities market pretty well sewn up, subject to one piece of wisdom he acquired during those tumultuous months. The world is an increasingly volatile place, in which nothing can be taken for granted.
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Whitefox Publishing Ltd The Gift Book 1: Eleanor
Book SynopsisThe North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. Amid the chaos of the sinking Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and is immediately captivated. As the ship buckles around them, she follows him down into the hold and finds him leaning over an open sarcophagus, surrounded by mutilated bodies. She catches but a glimpse of what lies within before she's sucked into a maelstrom of freezing brine and half-devoured corpses. Elle is pulled out of the water, but the stranger - and the secrets she stumbled upon - are lost. Unintentionally, however, he leaves her a gift; one so compelling that Elle embarks on a journey that pulls her into a world of ancient evils, vicious hunters and human prey to find the man who saved her that fateful night. From trench warfare at Cape Helles in 1915 to a shipwreck in the tropical shallows off the Honduran coast, from a lost mine beneath the towering Externsteine in a Germany on the verge of war to the gothic crypts of Highgate Cemetery in London, Elle gets closer to a truth she has sought for most of her life. But at what cost? Gifts, after all, are seldom free.Trade Review‘Soaked in ambience, paced like a wildfire, THE GIFT will have reader clamouring for the next in the trilogy. A rip-roaring old-fashioned-in-the-best way adventure, RA Williams has a knack for period dialogue and eye for the eerie supernatural.’ – GREGG HURWITZ, New York Times bestselling author of the ‘Orphan X’ series; ‘To conceive of a story almost deserving the term ‘epic’ is one thing… to artfully weave its multifarious strands together and do so with scintillating aplomb is another. Where innumerable contemporary authors have drowned in the tumultuous waters of Historical Fantasy, Williams not only remains gloriously buoyant, he seems to thrive amongst its literary eddies, swimming elegantly through his novel’s myriad complexities and myth-soaked depths. He has written an absolute cracker and dextrously laid the foundation for what I am sure will be a hugely popular trilogy.’ – PAUL SPALDING MULCOCK, Yorkshire Times; ‘A gripping and multilayered tale of blood-chilling horror and epic adventure across time and continents, of a woman’s bravery, determination and, above all, love.’ – LIZ FRASER, broadcaster and Amazon bestselling author of Coming Clean
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Legend Press Ltd Set in Stone: gorgeous historical fiction about
Book Synopsis"A lush page-turner about two women who fight for their futures in a patriarchal society" ?Janet Skeslien Charles, author, The Paris Library"An engrossing tale of superstition, rebellion and love"?Esther Freud, author, Love Falls"Storytelling at its best"?Ellen Keith, author, The Dutch WifeIn medieval Moldova, two women from opposing backgrounds fall in love.But this is a world where a woman?s role is defined by religion and class. To make a life together means defying their families, the law, and the Church. The closer they become, and the more they refuse the roles assigned to them, the more sacrifices they have to make. While Mira?s rebellion puts her life in the gravest danger, Elina must fight to change her legal status to "son"so she can inherit her father?s land and change their destiny.Set in Stone delves into the past to uncover a story which is just as relevant today: the desire to forge your own path while constantly having to resist a patriarchal fear of women?s strength ? and how ultimately love can help you choose your own truth.
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Partnership Publishing The Black Wolf
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Cinder House Big Time
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Filament Publishing Ltd Mockers
Book SynopsisMockers is a romantic novel set in the swinging sixties, where the warring gangs of the mods and rockers did battle by the seaside.
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The Conrad Press When a Good Man Comes to Town
Book Synopsis'When a Good Man Comes to Town' is a rip-roaring ride through the Wild West of old-time Wyoming. Packed full of gunslinging action, this thrilling novel is a fast-paced, highly atmospheric tale of a good man trying to save the day. A nameless bounty hunter takes a step into the unknown when he accepts a job to help right an emotional wrong. Haunted by past loss, and only used to tracking scum and villainy, he is shocked when this adventure sees him finding love with a woman who is more than his match. Together they must face their demons and defeat an evil plot that could have terrible ramifications for all the people of the Cowboy State.
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Holmgard Press The Caverns of Kalte Junior Edition
Book SynopsisThe classic role-playing adventure returns with simplified gameplay!In THE CAVERNS OF KALTE, you must brave the terrible perils of the ice kingdom in a quest to capture your most detested foe and avenge the Kai. But be warned! It is a challenge that will test your skill and endurance to the very limit.The third episode in a unique interactive series of 32 books. A must-read for fans of gaming and fantasy.For ages 7+. Stripped-back and simplified gameplay making the Lone Wolf universe accessible to non-gamers and young readers for the first time. More than 12 million copies sold, translated into 18 languages, winner of multiple international awards.
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Tapsalteerie cocoon
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Tapsalteerie Envy the Seasons: Haiku and haiku-like poetry
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Clixeo Publishing Left for Dead
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i2i Publishing All You Need Is Love
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And Other Stories Hardly War
Book SynopsisHardly War, Don Mee Choi's UK debut, defies categorisation. Using artefacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire.
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Peirene Press Ltd Half Swimmer
Book SynopsisHalf Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn''t yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany.
£11.69
The Conrad Press Poems of This Century and Poems of the Last
Book SynopsisA collection of poetry by one author
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The Conrad Press Lenswoman in Love
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The Conrad Press On Calm Water
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Cipher Press Romeo Seahorse
Book SynopsisA frantic love letter to love itself, Romeo & Seahorse is a sexy, frightening, tender, and visceral rush through Berlin''s chemsex scene. Romeo has Hepatitis again. It''s no surprise, and when you haven''t slept for days staying awake is easy. And anyway, there''s the promise of more drugs, more sex. Leaving his boyfriend at home he heads out for hookups, getting abjectly high and pushing his body to grotesque extremes in an urgent but dissociated quest for romance. What follows is a delirious trip through squalid rooms, hospital wards, and nighttime parks, broken by memories of first loves, European travels, and meditations on what it means to be a Romeo. With chaotic chemsex escapades and musings on romantic love, art and belonging, Romeo & Seahorse takes us to places not often explored in fiction. Written in a relentless, frenzied first-person narrative with moments of mind-bending wisdom and poignancy, this is a one-of-a-kind novel about addiction, desire, belonging, and want that'
£10.79
Consilience Media The Captains Bottle
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