Narrative theme: coming of age
Blackstone Little Crew of Butchers
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£19.99
Blackstone Publishing Little Crew of Butchers
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£22.46
Blackstone Publishing Northern Lights Lib/E
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£57.00
Park Row Books The East End
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£26.24
HarperCollins You, Me, and the Sea
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£29.99
Blackstone Publishing The Siege of Troy
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£22.46
Blackstone Publishing City of Flickering Light
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£75.00
Blackstone Publishing City of Flickering Light
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£26.21
Random House USA Inc Tell Me Everything: A Novel
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£11.00
Cornerstone Normal People: A Novel
Book SynopsisNOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE—Entertainment WeeklyTEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard CrimsonAND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins.A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t. Praise for Normal People “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post “Arguably the buzziest novel of the season, Sally Rooney’s elegant sophomore effort . . . is a worthy successor to Conversations with Friends. Here, again, she unflinchingly explores class dynamics and young love with wit and nuance.”—The Wall Street Journal “[Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism. . . . [She writes] some of the best dialogue I’ve read.”—The New YorkerTrade Review“[Rooney] has invented a sensibility entirely of her own: sunny and sharp, free of artifice but overflowing with wisdom and intensity. . . . The novel touches on class, politics, and power dynamics and brims with the sparky, witty conversation that Rooney’s fans will recognize.”—Vogue “A future classic.”—The Guardian“Rooney is a tough girl; her papercut-sharp sensibility is much more akin to writers like Rachel Kushner, Mary Gaitskill, and the pre–Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan. . . . Normal People is a nuanced and flinty love story about two young people who ‘get’ each other, despite class differences and the interference of their own vigorous personal demons. But honestly, Sally Rooney could write a novel about bath mats and I’d still read it. She’s that good and that singular a writer.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “[Rooney] has written two fresh and accessible novels. . . . There is so much to say about Rooney’s fiction—in my experience, when people who’ve read her meet they tend to peel off into corners to talk.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times“[Rooney’s] two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners . . . are tender portraits of Irish college students. . . . Remarkably precise—she captures meticulously the way a generation raised on social data thinks and talks.”—New York Review of Books“Normal People tackles millennial concerns with nineteenth-century wit . . . the millennial generation would no doubt be happy to accept her as its spokesperson were she so inclined.”—Elle“I’m transfixed by the way Rooney works, and I’m hardly the only one . . . like any confident couturier, she’s slicing the free flow of words into the perfect shape. . . . She writes about tricky commonplace things (text messages, sex) with a familiarity no one else has.”—The Paris Review“Funny and intellectually agile . . . [combines] deft social observation—especially of shifts of power between individuals and groups—with acute feeling . . . [Rooney is] a master of the kind of millennial deadpan that appears to skewer a whole life and personality in a sentence or two.”—Harper’s Magazine“Beautifully observed . . . crackles with vivid insight into what it means to be young and in love today.”—Esquire“I went into a tunnel with this book and didn’t want to come out. Absolutely engrossing and surprisingly heart-breaking with more depth, subtlety, and insight than any one novel deserves. Young love is a subject of much scorn, but Rooney understands the cataclysmic effects our youth has on the people we become. She has restored not only love’s dignity, but also its significance.”—Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter“Masterfully done. The quality of Rooney’s writing, particularly in the psychologically wrought sex scenes, cannot be understated as she brilliantly provides a window into her protagonists’ true selves.”—BookPage (starred review)
£21.00
Diversified Publishing Where the Crawdads Sing
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!More than 18 million copies sold worldwideA Reese’s Book Club PickA Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade “I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book ReviewFor years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens.Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
£21.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Dear Edward: A Novel
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£22.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Dear Edward: A Novel
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£10.62
Penguin Putnam Inc Copperhead: A Novel
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£14.45
Random House USA Inc Little Women
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£10.45
Random House USA Inc Pizza Girl: A Novel
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£14.45
Random House USA Inc A Drop of Patience
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£13.60
Metatron Press The Half-Drowned
Book Synopsisthe half-drowned is a vision of a future at the end of the world where what survives is the shapeshifting love of family both given and chosen. Drawing on the Afro-diasporic ancestral knowledge of water and the urgency of desire, Delaney builds a glittering, speculative world where community holds through grief, where we must choose to fend for ourselves while also caring for others. the half-drowned is a genre-bending novella that crafts a polyphony of voices to speak to and through our lives and dreams in order to reach for the unspoken and unsayable and make it heard. PraiseA forceful, surreal, and poetically muscular read about a resiliently catastrophic future. So so good. What a style and voice. Jeff VanderMeer, author of AREA X (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Told with searing insight and compassion, Trynne Delaney offers up a feast in the half-drowned. With swiftness, precision, and extraordinary prose Delaney gifts us an astonishing spec-fic tale of ancestors, lineage, aliens, blood, and memory. Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press)
£10.45
NeWest Press Home for Wayward Parrots
Book SynopsisAccustomed to being an only child, adoptee Brian Gumbo Guillemot''s teenage hobby was searching for his birth parents. After years without a lead, when he finally finds his birth mother, Kim, he''s unprepared for the boisterous instant family that comes with her.No one, besides Kim, knows anything about Gumbo''s birth father. With Kim refusing to answer any questions, Gumbo must choose whether to continue the search, even if it means alienating his few friends and both his families. And the more he learns, the more he wonders whether some things are better left unknown.Captivating and playful, The Home For Wayward Parrots explores friendship, romance, modern families and geek pop culture with wit, compassion and extremely foul-mouthed birds.
£12.74
Huntson Press The Forsaken Children
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£11.40
Tidewater Press My Indian Summer
Book SynopsisIt's the summer of 1979, and Hunter Frank is desperate to escape both his monstrous mother and his small northern town. With the help of three elders, a man named Crow, his two best friends, and a drug dealer, the twelve-year-old may be getting out of Red Rock sooner than he hoped.
£11.69
Tidewater Press Atomweight
£11.69
Amazon Publishing La extraordinaria vida de Sam
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£8.99
Amazon Publishing ¿Has visto a Luis Vélez?
Book SynopsisDos extraños encuentran su antídoto perfecto para el miedo: la amabilidad.Raymond Jaffe siente que no encaja en ninguna parte: ni en casa, ni con la nueva familia de su madre, ni como invitado en el hogar de su padre, ni en el instituto, donde es un absoluto marginado. Cuando su mejor amigo se muda, Raymond piensa que solo le queda la gata callejera que ha domesticado. Hasta que un día una anciana llama a su puerta con una enigmática pregunta: ¿Has visto a Luis Vélez?Mildred Gutermann busca a su cuidador, que ha desaparecido. Ella salió de Alemania escapando de la persecución nazi hace ya muchas décadas, pero hoy se siente desolada en un entorno que cada vez se le hace más hostil. A sus noventa y dos años, lo único que se le ocurre es llamar a la puerta del vecino para pedir ayuda.Raymond responderá con fuerza, decidido a no permitir que se dé por vencida. Mildred, por su parte, querrá demostrar al joven que no se puede perder la esperanza cuando uno tiene a quien aferrarse. Y así, poco a poco, siguiendo la pista de Luis, una profunda e inesperada amistad florecerá entre ambos.
£13.29
Outlook Verlag The Jungle Book
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£40.41
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Illuminations on Market Street – (a story about
Book SynopsisSan Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. He finds himself working in a housing program for people with HIV/AIDS. The entire city is reeling. His clients are dying. Cab records their every word. He starts drafting a narrative of every person with whom hes slept: those who dropped him, those he adored, and those he let go of without a second thought, to reassess what he has left behind from the South of his childhood of dyslexia and infatuations, football and ecstasy, divorce and sex panics. In between girlfriends, acting up, attempts at romance, and trying to find his place in the greater San Francisco narrative, Cab is looking for something, tracing the interconnecting stories of the people hes meeting, sleeping, and drinking with, as everyone tries to find a space in the city. As treatments emerge and the economy changes, a new story takes shape in Cabs life and the city.
£16.50
Herzsprung-Verlag Der Engel, der seine Flügel verlor
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£12.00
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Entre los rotos / Among the Broken (Premio
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£14.36
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Y al polvo regresaremos / And to Dust We Will
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£14.36
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La alegría del padre / A Father's Joy
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£15.16
e-artnow Franziska
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£7.67
Sanage Publishing House LLP The Little Prince
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£18.99
Editorial Periferica Maria Zef
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£22.94
Malpaso Editorial Dulceagrio
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£20.76
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Encrucijadas / Crossroads
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£33.74
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial De pronto oigo la voz del agua / Suddenly I Hear
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£22.51
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Luz de guerra / Warlight
£23.82
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Donde nadie me espere / Where No One Awaits Me
£18.68
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Cómo maté a mi padre / How I Killed My Father
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£13.74
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Donde cantan las ballenas / Where the Whales Sing
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£13.91
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Canción de la infancia / A Song from My Childhood
£21.56
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Manuscrito hallado en la calle Sócrates / Manuscript Found on Socrates Street
£20.94
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Estaré sola y sin fiesta / I Will Be Alone and
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£18.28
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Conversaciones entre amigos / Conversations with
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£21.24
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La idiota / The Idiot
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£17.53
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Gente normal / Normal People
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£21.03
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Nino en la noche / Nino At Night
£21.80
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El instituto Topeka / The Topeka School
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£24.44
