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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 31 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Her Side of the Story by Alba de Cespedes
    Her Side of the Story - by Alba de Cespedes

    £20.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781782277583 | ISBN 10: 1782277587

    A captivating feminist classic about a woman’s struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of Forbidden Notebook – with an afterword by Elena Ferrante.  Alessandra has always wanted more than life offered her. Growing up i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Knowing by Emma Hinds
    The Knowing - by Emma Hinds

    £16.99   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781915798138 | ISBN 10: 1915798132

    A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH  ‘Vivid, visceral and utterly immersive. Extraordinary’ LIZ HYDER author of The Gifts   ‘You can smell the spit and sawdust rising from the pages of this atmospheric gothic novel.’ †... more

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  • Cover image of book Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    Take My Hand - by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

    £8.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781474622691 | ISBN 10: 1474622690

    AS SEEN ON BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS   Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. She wants to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke
    The Ghost Woods - by C.J. Cooke

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008515942 | ISBN 10: 0008515948

    ‘Haunting’ Sara Sheridan  ‘Intriguing, atmospheric, thought-provoking’ Alexandra Bell   ‘Beautifully crafted, thrilling and atmospheric’ Rebecca Netley   In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall.   This pla ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
    Stone Blind - by Natalie Haynes

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529061512 | ISBN 10: 1529061512

    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.  In Stone Blind, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before.  'Witty, gripping, ruthless' – Margaret Atwood via ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chase Of The Wild Goose by Mary Gordon
    Chase Of The Wild Goose - by Mary Gordon

    £12.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739744106 | ISBN 10: 1739744101

    The story of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, known as the Ladies of Llangollen  “Gordon’s spirited, romantic account of the lives of the Ladies of Llangollen is a fascinating piece of queer literary history in its own right. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
    Shrines of Gaiety - by Kate Atkinson

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804991053 | ISBN 10: 1804991058

    'Atkinson on her finest form. A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow, a peak performance of consummate control.' OBSERVER  'This is the perfect novel for uncertain times.' THE TIMES   'I can think of few writers other than Dicken ... more

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  • Cover image of book Violeta by Isabel Allende
    Violeta - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526648365 | ISBN 10: 1526648369

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   'Epic, beautifully crafted... Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN ... more

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  • Cover image of book Medusa by Jessie Burton
    Medusa - by Jessie Burton

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662408 | ISBN 10: 152666240x

    'A beautiful and profound retelling' - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe 'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra   If I told you tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini
    We Want Everything - by Nanni Balestrini

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784783693 | ISBN 10: 1784783692

    The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969.  It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
    A Room Made of Leaves - by Kate Grenville

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838851248 | ISBN 10: 1838851240

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION - the new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction winner and Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River.  It is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
    Swan Song - by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090188 | ISBN 10: 178609018x

    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE McKITTERICK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD   To the outside world, they were the icons of high society - the most glamorous and influential women of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
    The Tattooist of Auschwitz - by Heather Morris

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785763670 | ISBN 10: 1785763679

    Heart-breaking – a tale of love and survival amidst the horrors of Auschwitz Human – the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust – the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners' arms Inspirational – the very best of human ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grace by Paul Lynch
    Grace - by Paul Lynch

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073464 | ISBN 10: 1786073463

    An epic story of a young girl on a life-changing odyssey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine.   SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION & THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
    Lincoln in the Bardo - by George Saunders

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408871775 | ISBN 10: 1408871777

    A NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  'It would be an understatement to call this novel an extraordinary tour de force' Sunday Times  The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jews Queers Germans by Martin Duberman
    Jews Queers Germans - by Martin Duberman

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781609807382 | ISBN 10: 1609807383

    A historical novel about Kaiser Wilhelm’s closest circle of friends — all of them gay — at the dawn of the 20th century by the author of Stonewall.   A breathtaking historical novel by Martin Duberman that recreates the intimate milieu arou ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
    The Sympathizer - by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472151360 | ISBN 10: 1472151364

    A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, offering a unique perspective on the Vietnam war. Destined to become a modern classic.   WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
    The Danish Girl - by David Ebershoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781474601573 | ISBN 10: 147460157x

    The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper.  Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Musseque by José Luandino Vieira, translated by Robin Patterson
    Our Musseque - by José Luandino Vieira, translated by Robin Patterson

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910213070 | ISBN 10: 1910213071

    Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, sho ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Amanada Love Darragh
    The Gardener from Ochakov - by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Amanada Love Darragh

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099571872 | ISBN 10: 0099571870

    When Igor accidentally travels back to 1957, he finds out that the past isn't as rosy as it seems. In fact it's positively dangerous.  Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman's uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn't gone fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Silver by Andrew Motion
    Silver - by Andrew Motion

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099552659 | ISBN 10: 0099552655

    The thrilling follow-up to Treasure Island, as told by one of England's greatest contemporary writers. Think of the fortune waiting for you...   July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver’s daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
    Island Beneath the Sea - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007348657 | ISBN 10: 0007348657

    From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny ... more

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  • Cover image of book South Riding by Winifred Holtby
    South Riding - by Winifred Holtby

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849902038 | ISBN 10: 1849902038

    The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change.  Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sara ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by Glenn Taylor
    The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart - by Glenn Taylor

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007339549 | ISBN 10: 0007339542

    There’s little room in this world for a moral man.  Meet Early “Trenchmouth“ Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teache ... more

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  • Cover image of book Falling to Heaven by Jeanne Peterson
    Falling to Heaven - by Jeanne Peterson

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781851687367 | ISBN 10: 185168736x

    Tibet, 1954. The highest pass of the Himalayas is enveloped in silence save the flapping of prayer flags. Seven thousand feet below, two Americans travellingon foot arrive in the remote town of Shigatse, intending to make it their new home. Steeped i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood - by Charles Dickens

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099518891 | ISBN 10: 0099518899

    Featuring an introduction by Matthew Pearl.  The story of the fate of Edwin Drood is a mystery within a mystery. When young Edwin disappears after dinner on Christmas Eve and his watch and chain are later found in the nearby river, everyo ... more

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  • Cover image of book News from Nowhere by William Morris
    News from Nowhere - by William Morris

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199539192 | ISBN 10: 0199539197

    'The only English utopia since More's that deserves to be remembered as literature.' News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris.  The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Gu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sarah
    Sarah's Key - by Tatiana de Rosay

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719524523 | ISBN 10: 0719524520

    Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promises to come back for hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beloved by Toni Morrison
    Beloved - by Toni Morrison

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099511656 | ISBN 10: 0099511657

    It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists.  The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji
    The Book of Secrets - by M.G. Vassanji

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781841956862 | ISBN 10: 1841956864

    When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern-day Dar es Salaam, discovers the diary of a British colonial administrator from 1913, he is drawn into a provocative account of East Africa and the liasons, feelings and secrets of its peo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley
    Daughter of Earth - by Agnes Smedley

    £14.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780935312683 | ISBN 10: 0935312684

    In this gritty autobiographical novel (1929) revered writer and activist Agnes Smedley describes her first 33 years, growing up in a mixed-race family on the wrong side of the tracks, teaching at fifteen, going to college at Berkeley, discovering dou ... more

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