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Sophie’s Choice
- £25.00
- Award-winning (National Book Award) novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World). Centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor…
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Strangers & Brothers 7: Homecomings
- £40.00
- The personal life of Lewis Eliot, the central figure and narrator of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers, takes centre stage in this moving account of his wartime years.The suicide of Lewis’s desperately vulnerable wife, Sheila, ends a marriage fraught with difficulty and pain and shakes his world to the…
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Talking it over
- £15.00
- From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend…
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The Child in Time (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch. On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single…
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
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The Crescent Moon
- £30.00
- "The Crescent Moon" by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of poems and verses written self-translated from the original Bengali, specifically during the period known for its spiritual and artistic exploration in literature. 1st published in the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, this primarily reflects on…
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The Distance Between Us (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of HAMNET. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller 2004 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella…
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A PeopleÕs History of Afghanistan (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan Ð the first book from one of the worldÕs leading war correspondents. In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanÕs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the…
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The Finkler Question
- £12.00
- He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly…
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The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission
- £20.00
- Christianity Today 2024 Book Award (Missions/Global Church) Outreach 2024 Resource of the Year (Mission and Cross-Cultural) Highly regarded biblical scholar and speaker Christopher Wright shows us that how we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. According to Wright, ÒPeople read (and preach)…
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The History of the Kelly Gang (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Booker Prize Winner: 'Extraordinary . . . So mesmerising and moving.' Mail on Sunday. 'Vastly entertaining.' New York Times. To the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling…
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The Inheritance of Loss
- £13.00
- The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen…
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The Man in the Red Coat
- £30.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885,…
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The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £60.00
- Shortlisted for the WomenÕs Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ÔMantel has taken us to the dark heart of historyÉand what a showÕ The Times ÔIf you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Õ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in…
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The Mosquito Coast
- £25.00
- The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation…
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Sophie’s Choice
- £25.00
- Award-winning (National Book Award) novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World). Centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor…
- Add to basket
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Strangers & Brothers 7: Homecomings
- £40.00
- The personal life of Lewis Eliot, the central figure and narrator of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers, takes centre stage in this moving account of his wartime years.The suicide of Lewis’s desperately vulnerable wife, Sheila, ends a marriage fraught with difficulty and pain and shakes his world to the…
- Add to basket
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Talking it over
- £15.00
- From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight and comic flare. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend…
- Add to basket
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The Child in Time (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch. On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single…
- Add to basket
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel
- £50.00
- WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to…
- Add to basket
-
The Crescent Moon
- £30.00
- "The Crescent Moon" by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of poems and verses written self-translated from the original Bengali, specifically during the period known for its spiritual and artistic exploration in literature. 1st published in the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, this primarily reflects on…
- Add to basket
-
The Distance Between Us (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of HAMNET. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller 2004 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella…
- Add to basket
-
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A PeopleÕs History of Afghanistan (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan Ð the first book from one of the worldÕs leading war correspondents. In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanÕs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the…
- Add to basket
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The Finkler Question
- £12.00
- He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly…
- Add to basket
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The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission
- £20.00
- Christianity Today 2024 Book Award (Missions/Global Church) Outreach 2024 Resource of the Year (Mission and Cross-Cultural) Highly regarded biblical scholar and speaker Christopher Wright shows us that how we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. According to Wright, ÒPeople read (and preach)…
- Add to basket
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The History of the Kelly Gang (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- Booker Prize Winner: 'Extraordinary . . . So mesmerising and moving.' Mail on Sunday. 'Vastly entertaining.' New York Times. To the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling…
- Add to basket
-
The Inheritance of Loss
- £13.00
- The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen…
- Add to basket
-
The Man in the Red Coat
- £30.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885,…
- Add to basket
-
The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- £60.00
- Shortlisted for the WomenÕs Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ÔMantel has taken us to the dark heart of historyÉand what a showÕ The Times ÔIf you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Õ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in…
- Add to basket
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The Mosquito Coast
- £25.00
- The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation…
- Add to basket