We are offering a high discount due to slightly damageand SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEOn the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. But the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE FIRST NOVEL FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD'I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet' Sally Rooney, author ofand Normal People'A literary...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021'The boldest debut of the year . . .and It is refreshing to discover a new author of such grand scale, singular focus and blistering vision'and ObserverAmerica. In the twilight of theand Gold...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.'Claire-Louise Bennett, author ofand PondA woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022Aand SUNDAY TIMESand HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4and OPEN BOOK'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin'and Sunday Timesand Book of the MonthIn 1822, a stage is set:...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man....

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online: she studies, she tweets indignantly, she posts...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION An instant classic'and New York TimesBased on Cărtărescu's own experience as a teacher,and Solenoidand submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'Dazzling'and Cosmopolitan'Stunning' Kei Miller'Gorgeous'and Financial Times'Haunting'and Independent'Wonderfully fearless'and New Statesman'I deeply admireand This One Sky Day -and and also, not so secretly, bitterly envy it...' Marlon JamesDawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each...

Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. He planned to steal with these horses, who were all better than they looked on paper. The trick was to get in and get out fast. But could he really pull it off? Could he be that sure,...

Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, Helen FitzGerald's acclaimed psychological thriller brings a parent's worst nightmare to vivid life. Taut, dark, and emotional, The Cry follows the story of a missing baby and the investigation that thrusts his...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A deeply emotional love story that follows one day in the life of Elle Bishop as she navigates the unravelling of secrets, lies and a very complex love triangle'and REESE WITHERSPOON'Glorious and gorgeous. I was absolutely immersed and gripped...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2024'Mesmeric, intoxicatingly original' Hannah Kent, bestselling author ofand Burial Rites'Haunting and surreal... With its sharp wit and beautiful writing, this book had me flying through the pages.' Ana Reyes,and New York Timesand bestselling author ofand The House in the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first bookAs heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row'A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel' Chris Kraus'Tremendously funny and sexy as hell' Juliet Jacques'I loved...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.Inand Stone Blind, the instantand Sunday Timesand bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before.'Witty, gripping, ruthless' - Margaret Atwood via Twitter'Beautiful and moving' - Neil Gaiman So to...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author ofand The Portable Veblen Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie's wonderful last' Karen Joy FowlerPenny Rush has problems. Freshly divorced from her mobile knife-sharpener husband, she has...

Lose yourself in the magical and mesmerising story from Cecelia Ahern of how tomorrow can change what happens today.Sometimes tomorrow has to start today…Tamara Goodwin has always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. Until a travelling library...

Lose yourself in the magical world of No.1 bestselling author, Cecelia Ahern.Are you taking your life for granted?Lucy Silchester is. She's busied herself with other stuff: friends' lives, work issues, her deteriorating car, that kind of thing. But she's stuck in a rut -...

Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime - the unforgettableand Sunday Timesand bestseller'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature'and GuardianLonglisted for the Women's Prize 2020A STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY...

Lost at sea . . . with your one-night stand'Feels like a brand new version of romance . . . I drowned - happily - in this book' Jodi Picoult'My book of the year, my book of the decade. The best romcom I have...

Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their wedding anniversary. But Vaughan has forgotten he even has a wife. Her name, her...

Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. Whether...

Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?'A rare gift and one to be treasured'and SUNDAY TIMES A profound and vital book'and WILLIAM BOYDLily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a...

Love Heart Lane - where friends are there for you no matter what A new start... When Jinny Birdwhistle is pushed over the edge one time too many times and quits her job as a tabloid journalist, an impromptu - and rather unconventional -...

Love is really, really difficult. And it's even harder if you're the last woman on earth. The sketches in Simon Rich's new book are bizarre, funny, and even familiar. Exploring love's many complications and mortifications - losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making...

Love is the one thing you can't steal.Nessa Griffin leads a lonely life. Too compassionate and gentle for the underworld business she grew up in, she fills no role in her family's mafia empire, struggling to prove herself both at home and in her...

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Luca Ambrus is a rare breed: vampire from birth, begotten by vampire parents, blood born. He is also an agent of the Council-the centuries-old cabal that governs vampirekind, preserving their secrecy and destroying those who betray them. When a cryptic summons leads him to...

Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed - husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts...

Luciano Hernando Valdez is his Latin American nation's most celebrated novelist and he's suffering from writer's block. So far his latest great work comprises the words 'The scrawny yellow cat crossed the road'. He's tried all his usual tricks to get back on track...

'Lucy Dillon's books never fail to make me happy' Jenny Colgan Sometimes the cracks in your heart can be mended in unexpected ways . . . If Lorna's learned one thing, it's that courage is something you paint on like red lipstick, even when...

Luke Livingstone is a lucky man. He's a respected solicitor, a father and grandfather, a pillar of the community. He has a loving wife and an idyllic home in the Oxfordshire countryside. Yet Luke is struggling with an unbearable secret, and it's threatening to...

Machines Like Meand occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch...

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Madhu, Gaurav and Sunil are on a school trip to the hills of Chikmagalur with their classmates and Rajesh sir, their teacher. All they are looking forward to are two days of fun and hikes. But things start unravelling soon enough. The lodge' where...

Madison Allen is a renowned, career-driven photographer. Sifting through old photos in her fashionable New York fire-house apartment, she reflects on what could have been. She'd had three men in her life who were very important to her in different ways, but it was...

Madison Castelli - the beautiful, talented and street-smart journalist - returns in this thrilling and powerful follow-up to the bestselling LETHAL SEDUCTION...Distraught after finding out her father has been hiding secrets from her all her life - and is possibly involved with the mob...

Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. In a burst of literary brilliance, Max Porter translates into seven written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.

Maggie lives a life of careful routines and measured pleasures. But everything changes when, walking through Gatwick a few days shy of her fifty-eighth birthday, a young woman approaches her and whispers a single word: Help.' Maggie responds, and in that moment saves a...

Magic caused the war. Magic is forbidden. Magic will save us. It was said the Labyrinth had once been the great meeting place, a sprawling city at the heart of an endless maze where a million humans hosted the Houses of the Aelfir. The...

Magical, beguiling... Carries echoes of Toni Morrison'sand Beloved' GuardianAand Vultureand 'Book We Can't Wait to Read in 2022'They had not lost anyone that year, or the ones they had lost were not worth remembering...Set in the fictional Kenyan town of Mapeli,and Things They Lostand...

'Magnificent' Sunday Times'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on SundayThe final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the...

Mainao and alfred are forced to leave their village for delhi in search of employment. Ill - adjusted to city life they return to their village only to find their house burnt down and family destroyed by bodo militants. A half - burnt bus...

Making a brave, contemporary, and universal statement, this book presents a tale based around the atrocities of the Holocaust, blurring the line between truth and fiction. The story begins with a man regaining consciousness, finding himself naked in a mass grave with no idea...

Mala and Ronak are adults now. They've married, begun their own families and moved away from the suffocating world of their first generation immigrant parents. But when they learn their mother has only months to live, the focus of their world returns to her...

MALLORY IS BACKYou've heard his true story - now go deeper into Ant Middleton's world with his ultra-authentic thriller series.Hiding out in a small village in France, ex-Special Forces veteran turned vigilante Mallory is trying to keep out of trouble, aware that there is...

Mamma Mia meets Bridesmaids in a laugh-out-loud, life affirming comedy An absolute winner'and Celia Anderson No-one depicts family life with more humour and wisdom than Tracy Bloom'and Katie Fforde You will absolutely love Tracy Bloom… Heartfelt and wonderful'and Miranda Dickinson-------------------One weekend, one bride-to-be, what...

Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England -- but now, in his early seventies, his reputation is fading, his book sales have dried up and his new wife has expensive tastes. Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to...

Man at the Helm, the debut novel from Nina Stibbe - the much-loved author of Love, Nina - is a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcee in an English village in the 1970s, and a family's fall...

Marc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside...