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Fateless | 'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer' Observer Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old ...

Norwegian Wood | When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years ...

Anne of Avonlea | You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my freckles, taunted by a brazen Jersey cow and kept on m...

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The Biography | Read the first biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, whose music and career illuminate the journey and legacy of 1960s counterculture. Between 1969...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers | A charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arri...

The Mist in the Mirror | A terrifying ghost story, by the author of the The Woman in Black A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. One dark and rainy night, Sir James...

The Wapshot Scandal | Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England ...

The War is Dead, Long Live the War. Bosnia. The Reckoning | Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is...

Neverhome | I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into Ohio. Twenty dollars, two salt-pork sandwiches, and I took jerk...

The Cranford Chronicles | In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of migrant workers and the breakdown of law and ...

Cradle to Cradle | Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological manifesto. This book proposes a new vision for modern ...

Lamb | Two boys running away from a bleak reformatory begin the adventure of a lifetime, escaping despair, experiencing freedom and happiness but also running up against the cruel complexities of ever...

Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma | When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives. Ahead of her lies a life filled with fec...

The Fears of Henry IV. The Life of England's Self-Made King | From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's reign was cha...

Machines Like Me | 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 A...

Murder | ‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’ Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of deduction, and with the he...

The Last Samurai | Eleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised singlehandedly by his mother Sibylla, Ludo’s been reading Greek, Arabic, Japanese and a little Hebrew since the age of four; bu...

Clean. The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less | Soap Saves Lives. But did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment? Apart from...

Something to Hide | Petra's love life is a bit of a car-crash, even in her sixties. But then she falls for Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The catch? Jeremy is her best friend's husband. An...

Across the River and into the Trees | If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms. Ric...

Liquidation | ‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide… A compelling if deeply unsettling work’ Independent Kingb...

I Served the King of England | 'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came tru...

A Spot of Bother | A brilliantly funny, bestselling novel by the award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. 'A painful funny humane novel: beautifully written, addictiv...

Either/Or | The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood. Selin is th...

Death at the Opera | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Hillmaston School has chosen The Mikado for their...

Therapy | A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physioth...

Peter Duck | ‘Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?’ Titty asked. ‘Because of his heart’ said Peter Duck The Swallows and Amazons, as well as Captain Flint and the ancient able s...

Eating to Extinction. The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them | From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to an exploding corn in Mexico, there are thousands of foods that are at r...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a p...

A Patchwork Planet | From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. A Patchwork Planet is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style Barna...

Knocking On Heaven's Door. How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe | We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and c...

The Blacker the Berry | Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'Why not? She's just as a good as the rest, and you kn...

King Solomon's Mines | Allan Quatermain is a Victorian Indiana Jones - he triumphs over deserts, snowy mountains, tribal warfare and witches, and unearths the mythical treasure of King Solomon's mines...

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man | From the author of the bestselling Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafй comes this sassy, coming of age story, bound to make you laugh and cry in turn. Fannie ...

Part of the Furniture | Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to wail out across London...

Lies | ‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.’ Is lying simply an uncomfortable truth about li...

Ripley Under Ground | "You're always good on ideas, Tom..." An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley ...

A Disaffection | The endlessly inventive and gripping story of one man's rebellion and passion Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated...

Time Will Darken It | A visit from relatives sparks an implosion in the life of a good-natured family man The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. By...

Pure Colour | What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed? In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose ...

London | ‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’ Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens k...

Frederick the Great | Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of st...

The Wife | A Husband. A Wife. Their Secret Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan is plotting how to le...

Treasure Island | Bursting with rich descriptive detail, discover the classic world of Treasure Island. Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! When young Jim Hawkins disc...

Where the Jackals Howl | Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craf...

The Yellow Houses | Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a ha...

Crack in Creation. New Power to Control Evolution | Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), describes its power...

DarkMarket. How Hackers Became the New Mafia | The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012 We live our lives online - banki...

More Than I Love My Life | An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar On a kibbut...

The Scourging Angel. The Black Death in the British Isles | Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed m...

Mansfield Park | Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a home at Mansfield Park so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget he...

Conference at Cold Comfort Farm | Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, ...

Great Hatred, Little Room. Making Peace in Northern Ireland | Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politic...

Emil and the Detectives | 'Password Emil!' Emil is excited to be taking the train on his own for the first time. He doesn't like the look of his fellow passenger, the man in the bowler hat. Emil will ...

Birdsong | Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day. 1910. Amiens, Northern France. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in the ...

Vuelta Skelter. Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain | Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was ...

The Complete Fairy Tales | Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made o...

The Diving Pool | Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - spa...

Welcome to the Monkey House and Palm Sunday | A selection of the best sci-fi shorts from an American genius of the genre, collected alongside his most personal essays. A diabolical government asserts ...

Just So Stories | 'They sing in my head even now... What a wonderful storyteller/poet he was' Michael Morpurgo, Guardian Have you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his ...

The Draining Lake | A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a clue to the victim, and the killer's identity? Detect...

The Secret Body. How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live | Welcome to a revolution in the science of you! This landmark new book from award-winning scientist Daniel M. Davis ...

Back to Blood | The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering Miami As the police boat spee...

All The Names | A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and...