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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... | Niki Segnit HALF PRICE on this wonderful's chef guide to taste combinations, from the tried and tested to the outlandish and inspired. |
Mikhail Bulgakov With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat, the devil begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers... | Mikhail Bulgakov With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat, the devil begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers... |
Colm Toibin It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate... | Roger Deakin A frog's eye view of Britain, as Deakin swims its rivers, lakes and other waterways; an exquisite classic of British natural history. |
Simon Sebag Montefiore Vital prequel to the internationally best-selling biography STALIN: COURT OF THE RED TSAR | Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G.... Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes... |
Jonathan Safran Foer In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of... | Sappho; Carol Ann Duffy; Aaron... 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine... |
Zadie Smith Deals with - among many other things - friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of... | Alan Moore; Eddie Campbell; Eddie... |
Emily Bronte Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their... | Emily Bronte Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their... |
Ayn Rand Tells the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. This title presents the mystery about the murder - and... | Richard Tames The famous son of a famous father, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest engineer in an era of engineering titans. He helped... |