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Caitlin Moran Including cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag, this title also deals with... | Paul Auster; J. M. Coetzee Offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure... |
Jonathan Franzen The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. | David Sedaris A new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist |
Kathleen Tudor; Alice Candy; Harper... | Julian Barnes Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. May... |
Andrew Miller *WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* | Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the... |
Alison Moore The story of Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday.
As he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of... | George Orwell Includes all issues such as political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. This title offers an essay on style. |
Haruki Murakami Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to... | Sue Townsend The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally... |
David Bellos How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at... | Caitlin Moran Possibly the only drawback about the "How To Be A Woman" was that its author, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. This book is a proof... |
Michael Symmons Roberts; Paul Farley Passed through, negotiated, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. This title... | Philip Pullman 'I think of him all the time, and he thinks of me not at all...' |