Narrative theme: love / relationships

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  • Looking for Bono

    Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd Looking for Bono

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisA sparkling satire on international aid and celebrity, Looking for Bono charts one man's accidental quest to bring water to his community.Baba is a semi-literate man living a simple life centred on the local auto repair shop in Palemo, how he will find his next meal and an obsession with his disinterested, Nollywood star-wannabe wife Munira and her voluptuous body. Baba is acutely aware of the water corruption that has left him, on occasion, without so much as a drop to even brush his teeth. One day on the news, a story about international humanitarian Bono flashes onscreen. Bono is in Africa to do good and like a thunderbolt, Baba decides that Bono is the answer to all of his problems. Once Bono hears about the local water issues he will want to step in and convince the president of Nigeria to end the corruption. Once the water is flowing, Baba can clean up and Munira will set her sights a little closer to home. Before he knows it, Baba is a celebrity being feted by the Lagos media and Munira has turned into his virtuous wife. Will the ensuing media storm engulf Baba as he is launched into a world of high stakes foreign aid dealings and competing interests? Or will he return to his simple life with water for his community and the renewed affections of his Munira?Trade ReviewLooking for Bono may seem like a novel full of hijinks: there's a scene involving a domestic helper which is straight out of a Carry On film... However it goes much deeper. Other than the theme of media manipulation, the book also focuses on abuse, corruption and social class. * Robert Pisani, The Bobsphere Blog *

    1 in stock

    £8.54

  • Scribe Us Sisters in Arms

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £15.30

  • Beverly Bonnefinche Is Dead

    Rising Action Publishing Beverly Bonnefinche Is Dead

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £15.29

  • The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water

    Baker Publishing Group The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water

    20 in stock

    Book Synopsis'Emotions leap off the page in this deeply personal book . . . . Expertly written.'--Library Journal***The best fiction simply tells the truth. But the truth is never simple.When novelist Kendra Brennan moves into her grandfather''s old cabin on Hidden Lake, she has a problem and a plan. The problem? An inflammatory letter from A Very Disappointed Reader. The plan? To confront Tyler, her childhood best friend''s brother--and the man who inspired the antagonist in her first book. If she can prove that she told the truth about what happened during those long-ago summers, perhaps she can put the letter''s claims to rest and meet the swiftly approaching deadline for her next book.But what she discovers as she delves into the murky past is not what she expected. While facing Tyler isn''t easy, facing the consequences of her failed friendship with his sister, Cami, may be the hardest thing she''s ever had to do.

    20 in stock

    £11.39

  • Mom in Space

    Louisiana State University Press Mom in Space

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisA complicated love letter to both the intergalactic and the terrestrial. Using the lens of spaceflight, Lisa Ampleman explores subjects ranging from the personal to the political, from fertility tests and parenting to climate change and civil rights.Trade ReviewIn these moving and incisive poems and essays, body and planet are intertwined, mother and astronaut orbit one another, and the everyday and the miraculous are one and the same. Like a skilled pilot, Lisa Ampleman expertly navigates through fertility clinics and lunar lava tubes, through Minecraft and spacecraft, through history and memory and earthrise." - Catherine Pierce"Mom in Space intertwines lyricism and sonic play alongside a deep investigation of the history of space flight and the men and women who've left the earth and come back changed. It's a riveting consideration of the threats to life on our planet and the thrills and consequences of our desire to explore the worlds beyond." - Nancy Reddy

    1 in stock

    £17.05

  • Newly Not Eternal

    Louisiana State University Press Newly Not Eternal

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisEqual parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection, a son has died on the cusp of his first breath, but the book’s stakes are larger and more universal than a single, silent, foreshortened life.Trade ReviewGeorge David Clark's new book of poems is as much a musical event as it is a literary one. This poet truly listens to every last word he sets to paper—good luck resisting the urge to give voice to these poems as you read them! A treasure of a book." - Amit Majmudar"Clark's poems are precise and memorable—songs in which deep feeling provokes startlingly fresh language. They are passionate poems, and the music that they make is true to the experience, reliably so, and amply." - David Yezzi"Clark's beautiful and moving second collection of poems, Newly Not Eternal, is a wonderful showcase for his formidable formal talents. The subtle display of formal variations here enhances his deeply contemplative project—that of interrogating faith with a poet's ear and eye and a generous, open heart." - Sidney Wade

    2 in stock

    £16.10

  • On the Overnight Train

    Longleaf on Behalf of Lsu Press On the Overnight Train

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisCollects a lifetime of thought and writing by Alice Friman, presenting poems of passion and permission, gravity and humour, alongside a great deal of truth telling peppered with the salt of invention.Trade ReviewAlice Friman writes poems like no other. Whether rummaging the storehouse of memory, humanizing the celestial, or pondering from the 'high / hill of age' poetry's ageless subjects—life, love, and death—she refracts it all through the dual prisms of her inimitable wit and her pain-etched but supremely open heart. Prepare, reader, to laugh as she breaks yours." - Mark Drew"Stricken, amused, this poet welcomes the dire, the ordinary, the strange, love from all angles into years and years. Under the autobiographical, it's the Greeks, the Bible, great paintings, great literature: backdrop and wild intervention in our motley human business. The playful beauty can't fool us. A dead-earnest curiosity's at work. Reverence. A poet telling us what we must know." - Marianne Boruch

    2 in stock

    £20.66

  • Traverse

    Lynx House Press Traverse

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisA book that seems to have all of Earth in mind, all its places and creatures, not as sentimental other but companions. Craft’s poems are certain, his language a landscape of its own - hard, pressured, and flecked like sedimentary rock - that occasionally upends the reader as a form of tectonics.

    1 in stock

    £19.76

  • Cauterized

    Michigan State University Press Cauterized

    Book SynopsisCauterize: to burn or freeze the flesh around a wound to stop heavy bleeding. In her sixth full-length collection, award-winning poet Laura Apol returns to themes of loss that are, at least partly, cauterized: her struggles with a conservative religious upbringing, her mother’s illness and death, children growing up and leaving home, losing her adult daughter to suicide, a worldwide pandemic, the casualties of age. With startling honesty, empathy, and lyrical precision, Apol offers insight into the ways some wounds need cautery to begin to heal. This is a book that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with the complexities of grief, forgiveness, resilience, and healing across time.Trade ReviewAs I read the poems in Laura Apol’s newest collection, Cauterized, I feel them existing inside me. This is what I cherish as a reader—to have a poet who skillfully leads me on a journey with her stunning imagery of monarchs, cats, dogs, and the encompassing natural world. Apol weaves beautiful narratives of family, grief, relationships, and the rawness of life always with empathy, always while embracing the lifeblood of existence. She writes, Tonight I am thinking of those things / I didn’t know I should love, and I think—How did I live before these poems? The brilliance of this work changed me in the best ways, both as a poet and person. [Laura Apol has cemented her place among my favorite poets, and once you read Cauterized, you'll understand why.]" —Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides"The spirits that hover over and through these poems become entirely incarnate at the poet’s beckoning. The shades, of course, come freighted with questions. There are good ghosts, umbrae of their former or imagined lives with which the poet seems eager to reconnect. Accordingly, the work traffics in the essential rather than accessory dynamics of love and grief, faith and its failings—a brave endeavor, to bring such things to light." —Thomas Lynch, author of Bone Rosary: New and Selected Poems"Laura Apol’s Cauterized is a lovely collection of poetry. Rich imagery sets the stage through which the emotional reveal packs its punch. Poems of grief and loss, of the victories and failures within relationships both familial and romantic, of the vicissitudes of being alive in this wondrously tangled existence remind us all to pay close attention, to learn the songs of nature, and to fully inhabit the possible. Brava."—Pia TÄavila-Borsheim, author of Above the Birch Line"In the opening poem of Laura Apol’s riveting new collection, the speaker looks for a lost dog along railroad tracks. The dog is “the last thing / among last things” and the act of searching brings her to a vanishing point: “to the place where the rails come together / almost out of sight.” Apol considers the bridges her father once built: “the kind that take a soul / across a stream.” She describes a voicemail message from her late daughter: “Those last words, curled like / a fist, like an infant’s ear.”] In Cauterized, Laura Apol brings us poems that are both intimate and honest; she gives us deeply beautiful poems filled with sorrow and wonder." —Faith Shearin, author of Lost Language

    £20.13

  • Flicker

    University of Calgary Press Flicker

    Book SynopsisCass Reisender doesn't enjoy her psychic abilities. They appeared after her parents were killed in a tragic accident and led her to Madame Freyja, a travelling fortune teller and all-round terrible person. Swearing to leave both her psychic sensitivity and Madame Freyja behind, Cass starts again in Calgary, Alberta, a city with nothing supernatural about it at all. Then Cass touches a strange antique device and her new life is blown apart. Transported to West Orange, New Jersey, in the year 1900, Cass meets the dashing Erik Thorvaldsen in Thomas Edison's – that Thomas Edison's – laboratory. As she and Erik grow closer, Cass finally accepts herself as she finds love in a life lived across centuries. Yet Madame Freyja lurks in the shadows, hungry for the power of the time travel device. When Madame Freyja strikes, Cass must face both her fears and her past or lose her connection to Erik forever. Flicker is a playful, fast-paced romp through the golden age of invention, mythology, and the supernatural. This is a novel for everyone who believes in the power of scientific curiosity and the strength of the human heart.

    £26.96

  • Flight Risk

    University of Calgary Press Flight Risk

    Book SynopsisWorld War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank safe, comfortable, and in the building while they plan a grand centenarian celebration. There's one problem: Hank doesn't want to live that long.Seemingly opposites, Hank and Sarah kindle a deep friendship. Sarah fears the future with multiple sclerosis will be even more isolated, difficult, and painful than the isolated, difficult, and painful present. Hank, a tail gunner during the Second World War, opens his heart to share the deep knowledge of fear, luck, and flying into battle he learned over his. combat missions. Sarah and Hank find strength in each other as they face their deepest fears.Based on interviews with veterans in Alberta seniors' homes and the skilled nurses who care for them, Flight Risk is the story of finding exactly who you need when you least expect it. An empathetic exploration of grief, friendship, and hope, this play asks what we lose when we ignore the knowledge of our elderly, challenges the way that we think about aging and death, and inspires a brighter, more compassionate future.

    £22.46

  • jp publishing groud ltd SUSURRADOR DE SUEÑOS

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £19.71

  • Estaba preparado para todo menos para ti / I Was

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Estaba preparado para todo menos para ti / I Was

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £22.46

  • Cambridge University Press Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £80.75

  • Floras Travelling Christmas Shop

    HarperCollins Publishers Floras Travelling Christmas Shop

    7 in stock

    Book Synopsis‘A gloriously festive, warm and cosy hug of a book. If this doesn’t get you in the mood for mince pies, eggnog and pine tree scents, nothing will!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ’Tis the season for mulled wine, mince pies, and magic under the mistletoe… Trade Review Praise for Rebecca Raisin: ‘A charming page-turner of a book. This is a delightful story of new beginnings…Definitely not to be missed!’ Bella Osborne, bestselling author of Meet Me at Pebble Beach ‘A poignant and whimsical second-chance-at-love story.’ Susan Mallery, New York Times bestselling author of Sisters by Choice ‘A heart-warming adventure that sweeps you along.’ Woman’s Weekly ‘A story with a LOT of heart… a truly wonderful cast of characters!’ Lucy Coleman, bestselling author of Summer in Provence ‘Exuberant and funny… refreshing as a breath of country air, it warmed my heart like a summer's day.’ Jane Linfoot, bestselling author of The Little Cornish Kitchen ‘WONDERFUL! I could not put this book down!… A book to warm your heart and spirit you away to a brighter place. 5 big glittering gold stars! I love it!’ Colleen Coleman, bestselling author of Don’t Stop Me Now

    7 in stock

    £15.62

  • The Secret Life of an Uncool Mom

    HarperCollins Publishers The Secret Life of an Uncool Mom

    3 in stock

    Book Synopsis From the creator of viral Tiktok sensation, Mammy Banter, comes a hilarious warts-and-all novel about modern motherhood – and how having it all sometimes isn’t what you think it might be. Trade Review‘Honest and laugh-out-loud funny’ Woman’s Own ‘An authentic, relatable and hilarious debut novel’ The Sun

    3 in stock

    £17.30

  • Until I Met You

    HarperCollins Publishers Until I Met You

    2 in stock

    Book Synopsis Escape to the Caribbean in this fun, sexy tropical romantic comedy by Amber Rose Gill, winner of Love Island UK! “Fresh and flirty…(a) charming romance.” — Publisher’s Weekly Will a tropical escape lead to a perfect romance? Trade Review Readers love Until I Met You! ‘A sparkling five-star read… the setting was done so well’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Full of fun, flirty romance that came along with its fair share of drama!’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I couldn’t put it down! Totally recommend’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A perfect beach read… funny and sweet’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved everything about this!’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A really fun read… I would hands down recommend’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A real pleasure to read… I look forward to seeing what this author comes up with next!’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    2 in stock

    £14.98

  • The Reading List

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Reading List

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £25.50

  • The Change

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Change

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £23.99

  • Summer on Sag Harbor CD

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Summer on Sag Harbor CD

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin spirits readers away to the warm beaches of Sag Harbor in the second novel of her bestselling Summer series.Olivia Jones, hard-working and accomplished, has, against the odds, blazed an enviable career path in the finance world. But behind the veneer of her success, she is mourning several devastating losses and betrayals. Untethered from her life in New York City, Olivia moves to a summer home in The Hamptons.Here, Olivia finds a close-knit community of African American elites who escape New York City for the beautiful beaches of the Hamptons. Since the 1930s, very few have known about this Historically Black Beachfront Community, and the residents like it that way.That is, until real estate developers discover the hidden gem. And now, the residents must fight for the soul of this HBBC.As the summer stretches on, Olivia teams up with her new friends to protect their community and, in doing so, discovers who she really is. Though not without cost, Olivia’s search for her authentic identity and her fight to preserve her new Black utopia, will lead her to redefine the meaning of love, friendship, community, and family—and restore her faith in herself and her chosen path.

    10 in stock

    £33.74

  • Mika in Real Life

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mika in Real Life

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £23.99

  • The Manhattan Girls

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Manhattan Girls

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    £21.99

  • An Island Wedding

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc An Island Wedding

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £20.99

  • Fourteen Days

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fourteen Days

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £26.34

  • Cloud Girls

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cloud Girls

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisA PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK! “Shocking—and shockingly good. It is thought-provoking, anger-provoking, guilt-provoking, and—most importantly—it is a brilliantly written novel.”—Roddy Doyle Thrown together by a harrowing twist of fate, two girls will find hope and redemption in friendship in this award-winning, emotional gut punch of a novel from the author of Bright Burning Things.Sassy, streetwise Sammy is a teenage girl who is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her into the hands of adults who don''t have her best interests in mind. Failed by them at every turn, Sammy acts out, seeking attention from boys, then men, when what she wants most is protection.Meanwhile, in a small village in Eastern Europe, preternaturally beautiful and naïve Nico is about to turn thirteen and as her family falls upon desperate times, her father is approached to marry her off. Her family knows that the nice life this stranger seems to be offering Nico is too good to be true, but they and Nico hope for the best as she’s shuttled across the border into Ireland, where she and Sammy find one another in their new home, a suburban brothel.As Nico and Sammy journey into this dark underbelly and out the other side, their friendship—and the unexpected acts of kindness they give and receive—form a potent bond.Heartbreaking and breathtakingly beautiful, Cloud Girls exposes the failings of polite society and the cruelty that exists beneath its surface, yet reminds us that goodness and love can flourish in the darkest times.

    7 in stock

    £27.00

  • Rags to Riches

    Ebury Publishing Rags to Riches

    Book SynopsisBut when a disgraced Amy is disowned by her parents and fiancé, Alice is the only person she can turn to…Forced to give up her life of luxury, Amy lodges with Alice’s friendly working class family.

    £12.34

  • The FiveStar Weekend

    Little Brown and Company The FiveStar Weekend

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £24.00

  • One Day I Shall Astonish the World

    Little Brown and Company One Day I Shall Astonish the World

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £21.60

  • Asking for a Friend

    Random House Canada Asking for a Friend

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisFor readers of J. Courtney Sullivan and Emma Straub, and for fans of Firefly Lane, comes a poignant and sweeping novel about life, love, and the ever-evolving nature of female friendship by the author of Waiting for a Star to Fall.The bottom of Jess’s world is falling out. Cocooned in her dorm in the winter of 1998, she’s reeling, and wants to be left alone. But a chance encounter with the older, otherworldly, elusive Clara has Jess awestruck. Clara, newly returned from a two-year trek drifting around the world, is taking a stab at normalcy for once, and the place she starts is university, where she struggles to fit in. Upon meeting Jess, though, Clara feels an instant connection, and everything seems brighter. Soon, the two are inseparable, undeniable necessities in each other’s lives. But when tragedy strikes, they are unceremoniously torn apart, sent tumbling down different paths. And with each passing day, their unbreakable bond is tes

    10 in stock

    £15.26

  • Inside Story

    Random House USA Inc Inside Story

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisFrom one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time, an autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die  “[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction...Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise.” —The New York Times This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps—an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. Other figure

    10 in stock

    £16.20

  • The Orchard

    Random House USA Inc The Orchard

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisFour teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.“Spectacular . . . intensely evocative and gorgeously written . . . will fill readers’ eyes with tears and wonder.”—Minneapolis Star TribuneONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York PostComing of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya’s dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs, and fantasizing about trips abroad and the lives of American teenagers. Meanwhile, Anya’s parents talk about World War II, the Blockade, and the hardships they have endured. By the time Anya and Milka are fifteen, the Soviet Empire is on the v

    10 in stock

    £15.30

  • First Time for Everything

    Random House USA Inc First Time for Everything

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisA “big-hearted” (The Daily Beast), “LOL-worthy” (Cosmopolitan) debut about a down-on-his-luck gay man working out how he fits into the world, making up for lost time, and opening himself up to life’s possibilities“Part of a new wave of authors releasing uplifting queer literature that casts its characters as the heroes of their lives . . . crammed with blossoming romances and glittery escapism.”—The GuardianDanny Scudd is absolutely fine. He always dreamed of escaping the small-town life of his parents’ fish-and-chip shop, moving to London, and becoming a journalist. And, after five years in the city, his career isn’t exactly awful, and his relationship with pretentious Tobbs isn’t exactly unfulfilling. Certainly his limited-edition Dolly Parton vinyls and many (maybe too many) house plants are hitting the spot. But his world is flipped upside down when a

    10 in stock

    £15.30

  • The Kew Gardens Girls at War

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Kew Gardens Girls at War

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisInspired by real events, a touching novel about a new class of courageous women who worked at London’s historic Kew Gardens during World War II.In the face of war, gardening is their duty…When Daisy Cooper’s new husband joins the RAF to fight the Battle of Britain, she’s terrified she’s going to lose him. So when her mother Ivy suggests she join the gardeners at Kew to keep busy, Daisy’s intrigued. After all, Ivy worked at Kew during the last great war and made lifelong friends along the way. Louisa Armitage, not ready to hang up her gardening gloves just yet, and Beth Sanderson, an aspiring doctor looking to make a difference, decide to enlist as well. When tragedy strikes, the women are forced to come together to support one other during their darkest hours. But can the Kew Gardens Girls survive the horrors of war-torn London this time?

    10 in stock

    £14.40

  • Penguin Putnam Inc Best of Friends

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis“A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces.” —Madeline Miller “A shining tour de force about a long friendship’s respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities.” —Ali Smith From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship and the forces that bring it to the breaking point Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though—or maybe because—they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future.   Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their bedrock

    10 in stock

    £15.30

  • Elizabeth Finch

    Random House USA Inc Elizabeth Finch

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, a magnetic tale that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man’s deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography.I’ll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I’ve met this year have faded. –John Self, The TimesThis beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class “Culture and Civilisation,” taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding, yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil’s grasp, Elizabeth’s application of her material to the matter of daily living remains important to him, even after her

    10 in stock

    £13.60

  • Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society

    Hachette Australia Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisNoosa Heads, 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her home town from Los Angeles to reconnect with her 19-year-old daughter, who is pregnant and determined not to listen to her mother''s advice. Cynthia''s former best friend, Lorraine, has been stuck mowing lawns as part of a business she shares with her husband - his dream, not hers. When Cynthia convinces Lorraine to join the local Sunshine Gardening Society, they meet young widow Elizabeth, and rootless, heartbroken Kathy. The four women soon discover the society is much more than an opportunity to chat about flowers. Rather, it offers them the chance to lend a helping hand to people whose lives need a bit of care and attention right along with their gardens.Between pulling up weeds and planting natives, the women learn from each other that some roots go deep, and others shallow; that seeds can lie dormant for a long time before they spring to life, and that careful tendi

    10 in stock

    £25.51

  • Mira Books The Friendship Club

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £26.09

  • Mira Books A Family Affair

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £9.99

  • Mira Books Midnight Promises

    4 in stock

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    4 in stock

    £9.99

  • My Brilliant Life

    St Martin's Press My Brilliant Life

    Book SynopsisA BEST OF THE MONTH SELECTION BY OPRAH MAGAZINEAN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2021An eminent South Korean talent makes her American début in this poignant watercolor of a novel . . . Kim is a writer on the move. O, The Oprah MagazineAe-ran Kim''s My Brilliant Life explores family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships, interweaving the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times.Areum lives life to its fullest, vicariously through the stories of his parents, conversations with Little Grandpa Janghis sixty-year-old neighbor and best friendand through the books he reads to visit the places he would otherwise never see.For several months, Areum has been working on a manuscript, piecing together his parents' often embellished stories about his family and childhood. He hopes to present it on his birthday, as a final gift to his mom and dad; their own falling-in-love story.<

    £15.96

  • All the Water Ive Seen Is Running  A Novel

    WW Norton & Co All the Water Ive Seen Is Running A Novel

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisFormer high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel.Trade Review"This novel; this portrayal of American youth—tender, and tough, and searching; this voice, which absorbs and transforms tragedy into elegy; this is one I've been waiting for. All the Water I've Seen Is Running is a mesmerizing look at friendship and loss, and Elias Rodriques is a devastating wonder." -- Justin Torres, author of We the Animals"All the Water I've Seen Is Running is an absorbing meditation on the power of memory and the people and places that make us who we are. Daniel’s captivating excavation of his past made me reflect on the different pieces of ourselves we have to bury for survival." -- Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts Are Family"In this story of a Florida homegoing, Elias Rodriques builds a raw and poignant poetry out of colloquial speech. Race, friendship, sex, the violent bluster and hopeful tenderness of youth, running and swimming and gigging for flounder, guilt and grief, the past that slips through your fingers and the past that rides heavy on your shoulders—many deep tributaries merge here, in a river that meets the sea." -- Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding"Rodriques brings a lyrical touch to his hero’s inner life, making his past pains and present-day heartbreaks feel bone-deep. A well-turned exploration of how intensely place and history shape our identities." -- Kirkus"[A] fresh and rhapsodic debut...This melancholy story is a startling and necessary addition to the canon of works that parse what it means to grow up in the American South." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[A] poignant debut… Rodriques reimagines the traditional tight-lipped detective who’s at the mercy of an unjust world, infusing both the malaise and sociopolitical concerns of his generation into a novel built on other noir staples...Rodriques’s prose is as measured as it is nuanced." -- Jakob Guanzon - New York Times"All the Water I’ve Seen is Running not only examines growing up, leaving home, changing, and then returning, but also examines how masculinity and maleness can ebb and flow depending on context... In rhythmic prose that belies the seriousness of the topic, Rodriques examines what it is to reconsider male friendship in adulthood, to balance newfound beliefs and acceptances, and to understand that who someone was as a teenager isn’t the person they are now." -- Teddy Burnette - Ploughshares"This stunning, lyrical novel is a beautiful account of grief, memory, adolescence, and so much more. I loved the vivid Florida setting. I loved the complicated and specific depiction of race and sexuality. I loved seeing characters bounce off each other and change each other and perform for each other. This is a really special book." -- Sara Sligar, author of Take Me Apart"All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running is an impressive debut about the intersectionality of identity and memory, revealing how where we live and who we love can embed themselves so deeply, there is no escape." -- Rachel León - Chicago Review of Books"Rodriques’ striking debut expands the geography of regional literature and convincingly demands acknowledgment of under-explored perspectives." -- Shoba Viswanathan - Booklist

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