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Dream Mistress
Jenny Diski
Condition: New
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When Mimi discovered an unconscious bag lady huddled behind a London cinema, a sense of duty prompted her to call an ambulance. Later, she wondered if the tramp, who could have been anybody, might not be somebody after all. Could she be her abandoning mother? Or Bella, a bomb-blast victim?


Eagles and Angels
Juli Zeh
Condition: New
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Max, while grieving for his criminal girlfriend Jessie, slides into a drug-induced oblivion, his personal and professional descent assured. As he probes into Jessie's past, a sinister web of conspiracy is drawn around him, with a cast of international lawyers, UNO politicans and mass murderers.


Mona in the Promised Land
Gish Jen
Condition: New
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It is 1968, the dawn of ethnicity, and though some nice Chinese girls are turning more Chinese, teenaged Mona Chan is turning Jewish, much to her parents' chagrin.


Monkfish Moon
Romesh Gunesekera
Condition: New
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These nine stories create a compelling picture of Sri Lanka, a country of natural beauty and a society in turmoil.


No Place to Hide
Robert O'Harrow
Condition: New
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Private companies have gathered all kinds of information about consumers and sold it for profit. This work aims to uncover the frightening alliance between government and business - the security - industrial complex.


No Saints Or Angels
Ivan Klima
Condition: New
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No Saints or Angels is a portrayal of life and love in Prague, where Kristyna lives with her unruly daughter and is striving to come to terms with the unease created by her family history.


Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
Condition: New
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"The Radetzky March" charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through the Battle of Solferino to the entombment of the last Hapsburg emperor, Roth's intelligent compassion illuminates the crumbling of a way of life.


Rice
Su Tong
Condition: New
£2.99

When Five Dragons chances his fortune in the city, his brutal humiliation at the hands of a gang of wharf rats hones his purpose. His desire for power and women is insatiable, and when he marries Cloud Weave, the daughter of a rice emporium owner and inherits the business, fulfilment beckons.


Sandglass
Romesh Gunesekera
Condition: New
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Among the secrets that Prins Ducal's mother has taken with her to the grave is the mystery of his father's "accidental death" 40 years earlier. With the help of his friend Chip, his mother's ex-lodger and confidante, Prins sets out to uncover the truth.


Sans Moi
Marie Desplechin
Condition: New
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When she needs a babysitter for her two children, the narrator of "Sans Moi" hires Olivia - recovering drug user, sometime prostitute, brought up in care. In the year they live together, companionship, intimacy and humour create a friendship full of vitality and mutual respect.


Stillness
Courtney Brkic
Condition: New
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In 1991, a war began in Yugoslavia that would last four years and claim more than a quarter of a million lives. Here, Courtney Angela Brkic puts a huiman face on the lost, the missing, the exiled and the invisible, from all sides of the conflict.


Tarabas: A Guest On Earth
Joseph Roth
Condition: New
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Set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas tells the story of Nicholas Tarabas, a young revolutionary ignominously dispatched from St Petersburg to New York by his outraged family.


Typical American
Gish Jen
Condition: New
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Yifeng has come to America to study to be an engineer and then return to China. But soon his name is Ralph Chang, he marries and has two daughters. This is the story of a family coming together and coming apart, a family with its sights set on the prize of the great American dream.


A Dangerous Business
Jane Smiley
Condition: New
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A brilliant, evocative novel about two women, Eliza and Jean, who try to find out what happened to the young women murdered in their town, in 1850s California.


Nudibranch: the collection from MBE for Literature recipient Irenosen Okojie
Irenosen Okojie
Condition: New
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A dark and lyrical collection of short stories from the author of the critically acclaimed Speak Gigantular and Butterfly Fish, whose unique voice has been praised by writers like Ben Okri and Stella Duffy.


Our Missing Hearts: 'Will break your heart and fire up your courage' Mail on Sunday
Celeste Ng
Condition: New
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The gripping and extraordinarily moving new novel from the internationally bestselling Celeste Ng.


POP. 1280: As seen on Between the Covers
Jim Thompson
Condition: New
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A classic crime novel from 'the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMESWith a new introduction by Charlie Higson


The Untelling
Tayari Jones
Condition: Used, Like New
£14.25   £6.99

The beautifully repackaged reissue of THE UNTELLING by Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, which was an Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection


Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey
Condition: Used, Very Good
£7.99   £3.75

As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness.


Drift Stumble Fall
M. Jonathan Lee
Condition: Collectible, Like New
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