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| Year | Completed sessions |
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| 2026 | 23 |
| 2025 | 56 |
| 2024 | 58 |
| 2023 | 59 |
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The Fifth Elephant
ISBN-10: 0552146161 · ISBN-13: 9780552146166
Published: 2000
Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don’t ask). It’s snowing. It’s freezing. And there are monsters on his trail . . .
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The Devil in Amber
ISBN-10: 1847396682 · ISBN-13: 9781847396686
Published: 2008-11-17
Lucifer Box - the gorgeous butterfly of King Bertie's reign, portraitist, dandy and terribly good secret agent - is feeling his age. Assigned to observe the activities of fascist leader Olympus Mons and his fanatical Amber Shirts in a snow-bound 1920s New York, Box finds himself framed for a vicious murder. Using all his native cunning, Box escapes aboard a vessel bound for England armed only with a Broadway midget's suitcase and a string of unanswered questions. What lies hidden in the bleak Norfolk convent of St Bede? What is 'the lamb' that Olympus Mons searches for in his bid for world domination? And what has all this to do with a medieval prayer intended to summon the Devil himself? From the glittering sophistication of Art Deco Manhattan to the eerie Norfolk coast and the snow-capped peaks of Switzerland The Devil in Amber takes us on a thrilling ride that pits Lucifer Box against the most lethal adversary of his career : the Prince of Darkness himself.
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The Black Death
ISBN-10: 0241399416 · ISBN-13: 9780241399415
Published: 2026-04-30
Thomas Asbridge’s remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity’s greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity. 'An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at the same time a page turner... Asbridge's definitive biography of yersina pestis, the germ that caused the world’s deadliest disease, is a masterpiece' Thomas W. Laqueur In the mid-fourteenth century, a lethal plague struck the medieval world, causing unimaginable suffering and destruction. This terrifying pandemic – the Black Death – was unquestionably one of history’s defining episodes, yet a critical feature of its progress has often been ignored: the disease was not confined to Europe, but rather affected almost all of the known world, including the Near and Middle East, Byzantium, north Africa and Asia. Tracing the pandemic’s course across the medieval globe, The Black Death contrasts the experiences of different peoples, including Christians, Muslims and Jews, charting this catastrophe’s transformative effects on diverse aspects of medieval life. And crucially, Asbridge demonstrates that the plague was often at its most destructive in the Islamic world, where it ultimately played a role in the collapse of the mighty Mamluk Empire. The Black Death also brings the human drama of this calamitous era to life, evoking the terror and the turmoil that beset cities such as London, Cairo and Florence. Asbridge reconstructs the lives of the men, women and children who faced the Black Death – from ruling monarchs to peasant farmers – laying bare both the abject horror they endured and the courageous resolve they often demonstrated while striving to survive. Uncovering a story that speaks to our own age, The Black Death highlights humankind’s capacity for compassion and resilience amidst a global crisis to explain how the medieval world confronted, and ultimately overcame, this shattering pandemic.
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Middlemarch
ISBN-10: 1853262374 · ISBN-13: 9781853262371
Published: 1994
This is an analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. It is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid 19th century.
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White Noise
ISBN-10: 0330291084 · ISBN-13: 9780330291088
Published: 1999
The Gladney's family life is disrupted and threatened when an industrial accident sends a lethal cloud over their community. Jack Gladney struggles with the ensuing complications which include murder.
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Four Quartets
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Published: 1943
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Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN-10: 0099800209 · ISBN-13: 9780099800200
Published: 1991-03
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centr
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The Bell Jar
ISBN-10: 0571248209 · ISBN-13: 9780571248209
Published: 2008-11-20
'A modern classic.' Guardian 'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol Oates I was supposed to be having the time of my life . . . Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esther's vision of the world shimmers and shifts: day-to-day living in the sultry city, her crazed men-friends, the hot dinner dances . . . The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, is partially based on Plath's own life. It has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, and has sold millions of copies worldwide. ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 'As clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.' New York Times Book Review Reader responses: 'Plath's underrated humour shines through this startling account of 1950s 'normality'.' 'Very readable, often darkly funny, and feels fresh.' 'Plath's masterpiece . . . It's amazing how relevant this book still is.' 'So enthralling . . . So thought provoking, so vivid, that it's thoroughly engrossing.' 'I just couldn't put it down.' 'Ever better than I expected.'
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Carpe Jugulum
ISBN-10: 0857524151 · ISBN-13: 9780857524157
Published: 2016-10-20
A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel In this and indeed other lives there are givers and takers. It's safe to say that vampires are very much in the latter camp. They don't have much time for the givers of this world - except perhaps mealtimes - and even less for priests. Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. Lancre's newest residents are a thoroughly modern, sophisticated vampire family. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. But they haven't met the neighbours yet: between them and Lancre stand Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg. And Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies. And young Agnes, although she is really in two minds about everything. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0802123457" · ISBN-13: ="9780802123459"
Published: 2015
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A Quiet Evening
ISBN-10: 1780602316 · ISBN-13: 9781780602318
Published: 2025-01-16
A collection of Norman Lewis's thirty-six articles spanning five decades, showcasing his wit, insight, and unforgettable storytelling. Collected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis's best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a witness to his times - the good, the bad and the absurd - he was unmatched, and his instinct for important events, and moments, was infallible. His range here includes Ibizan fishermen, an interview with Castro's executioner, the genocide of the South American Indian tribes, a paean to Seville and his meeting with a tragic Ernest Hemingway. That meeting was 'a shattering experience, ' Norman wrote to Ian Fleming who had commissioned him, 'of the kind likely to sabotage ambition.' Fortunately it didn't, and the articles assembled between these covers are compulsive, hilarious, tender and beautifully written, at times deeply upsetting and always unforgettable.
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Naples '44
ISBN-10: 0786714387 · ISBN-13: 9780786714384
Published: 2005-01-03
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The most popular of Lewis's twenty-seven books, Naples '44 is a landmark poetic study of the agony of wartime occupation and its ability to bring out the worst, and often the best, in human nature. In prose both heartrending and comic, Lewis describes an era of disillusionment, escapism, and hysteria in which the Allied occupiers mete out justice unfairly and fail to provide basic necessities to the populace while Neapolitan citizens accuse each other of being Nazi spies, women offer their bodies to the same Allied soldiers whose supplies they steal for sale on the black market, and angry young men organize militias to oppose "temporary" foreign rule. Yet over the chaotic din, Lewis sings intimately of the essential dignity of the Neapolitan people, whose traditions of civility, courage, and generosity of spirit shine through daily. This essential World War II book is as timely a read as ever.
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The Last Continent
ISBN-10: 0552167606 · ISBN-13: 9780552167604
Published: 2013-11-04
'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.' There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology. With the best and most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point, the Discworld's last continent needs a saviour... Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober. In fact, it's Rincewind, a wizard so inept he can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still...no worries, eh?
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Everybody
ISBN-10: 1509857133 · ISBN-13: 9781509857135
Published: 2021-04-29
'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian 'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday Times From the award-winning author of Crudo, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom – from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement. Drawing on their own experiences in protest and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X. At a time when basic rights are once again in danger, Everybody is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom – and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. 'An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum' – Evening Standard 'Sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin' – Financial Times
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The Lonely City
ISBN-10: 1782111247 · ISBN-13: 9781782111245
Published: 2016-03-03
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Chosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Herald When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most compelling artists, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.
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Lean Fall Stand
ISBN-10: 1646221001 · ISBN-13: 9781646221004
Published: 2021-09-21
A thrilling and propulsive novel of an Antarctica expedition gone wrong and its far-reaching consequences for the explorers and their families "leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story" (Hilary Mantel). Remember the training: find shelter or make shelter, remain in place, establish contact with other members of the party, keep moving, keep calm. Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic surveying, was there on the ice when the worst happened. He holds within him the complete story of that night—but depleted by the disaster, Wright is no longer able to communicate the truth. Instead, in the wake of the catastrophic expedition, he faces the most daunting adventure of his life: learning a whole new way to be in the world. Meanwhile Anna, his wife, must suddenly scramble to navigate the sharp and unexpected contours of life as a caregiver. From the Booker Prize-longlisted, American Academy of Arts & Letters Award-winning author of Reservoir 13, this is a novel every bit as mesmerizing as its setting. Tenderly unraveling different notions of heroism through the rippling effects of one extraordinary expedition on an ordinary family, Lean Fall Stand explores the indomitable human impulse to turn our experiences into stories—even when the words may fail us.
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London and the Seventeenth Century
ISBN-10: 0300258828 · ISBN-13: 9780300258820
Published: 2021-02-23
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took center stage. In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events on an ever-growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle, and enterprise. Lincoln looks at how religious, political, and financial tensions were fomented by commercial ambition, expansion, and hardship. In addition to events at court and parliament, she evokes the remarkable figures of the period, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Pepys, and Newton, and draws on diaries, letters, and wills to trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners. Through their eyes, we see how the nation emerged from a turbulent century poised to become a great maritime power with London at its heart—the greatest city of its time.
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Come Join Our Disease
ISBN-10: 0571360106 · ISBN-13: 9780571360109
Published: 2021-03-16
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2021 * 'Exceptional...' Observer * 'Unforgettable...' TLS * 'Outstanding...' Irish Times * ' Sam Byers's mastery of tone and attentiveness to every psychological shift confirms him as one of the most accomplished novelists of his generation.' Sunday Times The new novel from the author of Perfidious Albion -a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption. Maya is homeless. When her site is razed by ruthless authorities, she's detained. But then, Maya is given a lifeline; a chance to re-enter society again. A tech company - angling to raise its philanthropic profile - offers her a job and a flat. There's one caveat: Maya must document her inspiring progress on Instagram to show that anyone can be productive; perfect. Yet Maya realises that sickness is a kind of revolution. With other outcasts, Maya starts a movement: billboards promoting wellness are defaced all over London and her media feed is flooded with obscene, filthy images. Suddenly, questions arise about the forces unleashed: liberation and madness, protest and anarchy, rebellion and chaos.
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The Peak: An exciting and gripping new espionage thriller and debut novel, perfect for fans of John le Carré, Daniel Silva and Robert Harris
ISBN-10: 1460718380 · ISBN-13: 9781460718384
Published: 2025-07-02
Sure to be THE debut thriller of 2025, The Peak is a nailbiting and unputdownable read, a powerfully taut, gripping and fast-moving international thriller that weaves a story of friendship, love and betrayal together with the ruthless geopolitics of China's rise, set in the last 24 hours of the world as we know it. 'Now I'll tell you what happened, as best I can. No spin. No agenda. If I get something wrong, it's not because I'm being evasive. It's simply because I'm still trying to understand what happened today ... It's to explain, as best I can, what Sebastian has done, and why tomorrow when you wake up, it will be the end of the world.' Political hatchet man Charlie will do anything to protect Sebastian, government minister and his best friend since their brutal private school days. Rising to power and prominence through international diplomatic postings and then the rough and tumble of Australian politics, they are as close as brothers - or so Charlie thinks - while both keep the secret that lies at the very heart of their relationship - a secret that in one way or another will change the world. But then a single phrase in Mandarin is spoken in Sebastian's ear and he does the unthinkable. As Charlie tries to piece it all together - from their youth spent in Hong Kong to the recent past in Beijing and Washington - things in the outside world start to fall apart too. Planes can't land, the phone lines go down and the power is out. Then the secret intelligence services comes knocking. Charlie wonders, what the hell did Sebastian do? From the jostling streets of Hong Kong to Beijing's shadowy halls of power and the backstabbing Machiavellian workings of Parliament House in Canberra, The Peak is a powerful, propulsive and nailbitingly tense international thriller. Written with an extraordinary insider knowledge of China, the realities of global power and the inner dealings of the Australian Government, The Peak has the authenticity and moral complexity of a Le Carre novel and the narrative power of an Australian Robert Harris. 'Rewrites the script for spy fiction in the 21st century' Nigel Inkster, former director for operations and intelligence for MI6 PRAISE FOR THE PEAK 'Sam Guthrie is a born writer - this is a cracking thriller' Dervla McTiernan, What Happened to Nina? 'In this biting Australian political thriller, a scruffy political operative has his Scheherazade moment - weaving together past and present, trying to make sense of what looks a bit like the end of the world - and a cracking yarn unfolds. Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.' Hayley Scrivenor, Girl Falling 'The Peak is a classy and very clever contemporary thriller. There's an intriguing global dimension to the plot, which feels particularly apposite and accurate in these troubled and unsettling times.' Alex Gerlis, The Best of Our Spies 'A fast-moving thriller, weaving a story of friendship and betrayal with ruthless geopolitics.' Adele Parks 'Hands down the best debut of the year, this is a hugely propulsive Australian politico-spy thriller which blends the plot mechanics of a great mystery with interesting and deep characters, snappy dialogue and an espionage conspiracy ... It positively crackles and the pages turn themselves. It would make a sensational Netflix series.' spybary.com 'Will there be a showdown between China and the west? The answer thrills - and chills - in Sam Guthrie's addictive tale of how human passion and geopolitical intrigue might bring doomsday closer.' Professor Rana Mitter, Harvard Kennedy School 'A twisty political thriller that asks if it's possible to really ever know your friends ... taut and fast' Alma Katsu, Red London 'Gripping and original, a portrait of a friendship, an insight into contemporary espionage and geopolitics, with a tremendous sense of place and a central mystery that kept me turning the pages. A rare combination.' Oliver Harris, A Shadow Intelligence '[An] impressive first novel ... illuminating and extremely alarming.' Literary Review Magazine 'A confident, explosive debut from an author sure to be the next big thing in the Australian thriller landscape.' Laura McCluskey, The Wolf Tree 'Wow! A superb novel ... gripping from the get-go and chillingly real; a must read for fans of Le Carre and a terrifying glimpse into the very near future.' Steve Lewis, Secret City
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The Delusions
ISBN-10: 1804942162 · ISBN-13: 9781804942161
Published: 2026-03-19
THE BOLD NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PANOPTICON, LUCKENBOOTH AND OOTLIN '1984 for the afterlife' Irvine Welsh 'Outstanding' Lemn Sissay 'Awe-inspiring' Kirstin Innes 'Bold and brilliant' Jess Kidd 'Wholly wondrous' Niall Griffiths Edi is facing a disciplinary since her 'incident' at work. Forty-seven years in Admin processing the newly dead is not how she foresaw eternity. In Arrivals, the newly dead must take the stages in order: first, extract delusion; second, answer HR's questionnaire truthfully. Yet who among them can truly face who they are? Who may never pass at all? As leaderboard numbers begin to rise at unprecedented rates, rumours begin to fly. Humans are about to become a banned race. The earth is going to be repossessed. As chaos descends, Edi hopes this might finally be the moment she has waited for, so she might see her son again who she was forced to leave on Earth when she died. Edi wants to be the one waiting for him, even if HR protocols forbid it. Looking out at the millions of newly dead arriving, Edi has one question - what might any of us truly be willing to do for those we love at the doors of eternity? Against a spectacular backdrop of stars, constellations and comets, a mass extinction event begins to unfurl watched by the entire universe as Processing, the largest soul terminus in existence, decides it is now time to take matters wholly back into its own hands. With reflections on love, defiance and light, The Delusions is a story of profound human connection, on an unprecedented scale. Praise for Jenni Fagan 'Fagan's writing is poetic, high-octane, arresting' Sunday Times 'She writes unlike any other author of her generation' The Scotsman 'One of our most exceptional writers' Adelle Stripe
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Look What You Made Me Do
ISBN-10: 0571298656 · ISBN-13: 9780571298655
Published: 2026-03-10
'A great read. A box of delights which is also a thrilling satirical torture chamber.' Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession 'An absolute riot . . . totally compulsive.' Observer 'A modern master of funny, penetrating satire.' GQ 'If Phoebe Waller-Bridge had a score to settle.' Stylist The new novel from the bestselling author of Capital What if the year's most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the creator of the year's hit TV show, Cheating. When Kate's world takes a darker turn, she thinks she sees details and intimacies in the show that only she and her husband Jack could possibly have known. But who has betrayed who? Who gets to tell whose story? A black comedy of resentment and entitlement, Look What You Made Me Do is the story of two very different women from two very different generations, heading toward a battle only one of them can win.
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Behind Closed Doors
ISBN-10: 147214645X · ISBN-13: 9781472146458
Published: 2022-07-28
With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealing how while the clubs may have been products of their city and country, they also exerted significant influence on London, Britain and places far beyond. This is a chronicle, as informative as it is entertaining, of the ups and downs of London clubland, and how it had an impact on parts of the world far from London. It is packed with amusing anecdotes and illustrative examples of the growth of this quirky, unique institution, which grew to spread around the world. London, though, with its four hundred clubs, was always at its heart. Thévoz reveals how everything we might have thought we knew about these clubs is wrong. They may have started out as white, male, aristocratic watering holes - but that's only part of the story. All sections of society built their own clubs and lived their lives there: highbrow and lowbrow; women and men; working-class, middle-class and upper-class; international and British. The club has been central to a distinctively British form of leisure over more than three centuries. Behind Closed Doors is a distillation of a decade of research and writing on London clubs, based on exclusive behind-the-scenes access to archives and proceedings, as well as a love of gossip and scandal.
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What Is Free Speech?
ISBN-10: 0241347483 · ISBN-13: 9780241347485
Published: 2025-03-27
'Eye-opening, thought-provoking and deeply enjoyable, What is Free Speech? is a work of great profundity and brilliance’ William Dalrymple A fresh and exciting approach to one of the most controversial subjects of our time ‘Free Speech!’ is a clarion call all over the world, yet what it means today is more contested than ever. Many cultures regard it as dangerous: in China, India, and across the Islamic world, unorthodox views about politics, sex, and religion are repressed and people are often punished for expressing them. Even in the western world, where it is held up as a core value, there is widespread discord and disagreement about what freedom of expression means. Amidst perennial imbalances of power, continually evolving cultural taboos, dramatic new technologies and a fast-changing global media landscape, where free speech comes from – and how we might think about it – are critical questions. Through the lens of history, What Is Free Speech? shows us that freedom of speech is not an absolute from which societies and regimes have drifted or dissented at different times, but something more complicated and interesting. Our modern conceptions of press and speech liberty, Dabhoiwala shows, were invented in Britain around 1700. The real history of freedom of expression is a story of countless fascinating men and women whose lives have shaped its principles and practices over the past 300 years – slaves and imperialists, poets and philosophers, plutocrats and revolutionaries. Ranging across Europe, North America and South Asia, and not neglecting other parts of the world, Dabhoiwala rejects celebratory platitudes about the past and present of free expression. Instead, his book explains how to think more deeply about free speech as a global as well as a local question — by tracing how we got into our current predicaments, showing that history complicates our contemporary presumptions, and suggesting fresh possibilities for the future.
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Nonesuch
ISBN-10: 0571397166 · ISBN-13: 9780571397167
Published: 2026-02-26
'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley 'One of the finest prose stylists of his generation.' The Times It's the summer of 1939. London is on the brink of catastrophic war. Iris Hawkins, an ambitious young woman in the stuffy world of City finance, has a chance encounter with Geoff, a technical whizz at the BBC's nascent television unit. What was supposed to be one night of abandon draws her instead into an adventure of otherworldly pursuit - into a reality where time bends, spirits can be summoned, and history hangs by a thread. Soon there are Nazi planes overhead. But Iris has more to contend with than the terrors of the Blitz. Over the rooftops of burning London, in the twisted passages between past and present, a fascist fanatic is travelling with a gun in her hand. And only Iris can stop her from altering the course of history forever.
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Jingo
ISBN-10: 0552167592 · ISBN-13: 9780552167598
Published: 2013-07-01
Fourth book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch 'Generous, amusing and the ideal boarding point for those who have never visited Discworld' Sunday Telegraph The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . _________________ 'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.' When the neighbours in question are the proud empires of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork, those are going to be some pretty large garden tools indeed. Of course, no-one would dream of starting a war without a perfectly good reason...such as a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen's right to bear arms to defend their own. Even if it isn't technically their own. And even if they don't have much in the way of actual weaponry. As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse.
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Intimate Subjects
ISBN-10: 0226834336 · ISBN-13: 9780226834337
Published: 2024-07-26
An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, when new urban encounters compelled intense discussion of what touch was, and why it mattered. In this vividly written book, Simeon Koole excavates the history of these concerns and reveals how they continue to shape ideas about “touch” in the present. Intimate Subjects takes us to the bustling railway stations, shady massage parlors, all-night coffee stalls, and other shared spaces where passengers, customers, vagrants, and others came into contact, leading to new understandings of touch. We travel in crammed subway cars, where strangers negotiated the boundaries of personal space. We visit tea shops where waitresses made difficult choices about autonomy and consent. We enter classrooms in which teachers wondered whether blind children could truly grasp the world and labs in which neurologists experimented on themselves and others to unlock the secrets of touch. We tiptoe through London’s ink-black fogs, in which disoriented travelers became newly conscious of their bodies and feared being accosted by criminals. Across myriad forgotten encounters such as these, Koole shows, touch remade what it meant to be embodied—as well as the meanings of disability, personal boundaries, and scientific knowledge. With imagination and verve, Intimate Subjects offers a new way of theorizing the body and the senses, as well as a new way of thinking about embodiment and vulnerability today.
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Luminous
ISBN-10: 0861546415 · ISBN-13: 9780861546411
Published: 2025-03-20
'Wildly and, yes, luminously emotional.' Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library 'Searching and masterful, Park's Luminous engrossed me completely.' Sierra Greer, author of Annie Bot In a fictional near-future Korea, robots have integrated seamlessly into society. They are housekeepers and policemen, teachers and bus drivers. They are our lovers. They are even our children. Siblings Jun and Morgan Cho haven't spoken to each other in several years. The children of a celebrated robot designer, both are still grieving the loss of their brother Yoyo, the earliest prototype for what humanoid robots have now become--nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. But Yoyo was always bound for a darker purpose, and his absence has left a chasm in the siblings' lives. When a strange disappearance thrusts the siblings back together, neither of them realizes that the investigation will not only force them to confront their fractured family's past, but will also bring them back to Yoyo himself. At once a thrilling page-turner and a heartfelt story of the ties between siblings, Luminous is an unforgettable literary debut.
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H(A)PPY
ISBN-10: 1473539307 · ISBN-13: 9781473539303
Published: 2017-07-20
*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018* *LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018* A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR From the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker-shortlisted Nicola Barker comes a new novel, a post-post apocalyptic story that overflows with pure creative talent. Imagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed. Imagine a System which both nurtures and protects. A Community which nourishes and sustains. An infinite world. A world without sickness, without death. A world without God. A world without fear. Could you...might you be happy there? H(A)PPY is a post-post apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland, a story which tells itself and then consumes itself. It's a place where language glows, where words buzz and sparkle and finally implode. It's a novel which twists and writhes with all the terrifying precision of a tiny fish in an Escher lithograph – a book where the mere telling of a story is the end of certainty.
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Hogfather
ISBN-10: 0552167584 · ISBN-13: 9780552167581
Published: 2013-07
It's the night before Hogswatch, the Discworld festival, and the Hogfather has been kidnapped. There's only one possible stand-in who can be everywhere at once and negotiate the thinnest chimney. He's just got to remember to leave his scythe behind. That's right. HO, HO, HO, EVERYONE.
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Feet of Clay
ISBN-10: 0552167576 · ISBN-13: 9780552167574
Published: 2013-07
Someone is murdering old men, the Patrician has been poisoned, the clay workers have started committing suicide, and there is a werewolf suffering from pre-lunar tension.
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
ISBN-10: 1529407982 · ISBN-13: 9781529407983
Published: 2021-09-02
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022 A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady '[a] delight of a book' Antonia Senior, The Times 'ravishingly lovely' The Times Ireland '[a] lively retelling of British myths' Apollo Magazine Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. It begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of fallen angels walked the earth, to the founding of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, the birth of Christ, the wars between Britons, Saxons and Vikings, and closes with the arrival of the Normans. These are retellings of medieval tales of legend, landscape and the yearning to belong, inhabited with characters now half-remembered: Brutus, Albina, Scota, Arthur and Bladud among them. Told with narrative flair, embellished in stunning artworks and glossed with a rich and erudite commentary. We visit beautiful, sacred places that include prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge and Wayland's Smithy, spanning the length of Britain from the archipelago of Orkney to as far south as Cornwall; mountains and lakes such as Snowdon and Loch Etive and rivers including the Ness, the Soar and the story-silted Thames in a vivid, beautiful tale of our land steeped in myth. It Illuminates a collective memory that still informs the identity and political ambition of these places. In Storyland, Jeffs reimagines these myths of homeland, exile and migration, kinship, loyalty, betrayal, love and loss in a landscape brimming with wonder.
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Saints
ISBN-10: · ISBN-13: 9798881606046
Published: 2025-09-09
From the bestselling author of Storyland and Wild comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty, and heroic strength. Illustrated by the author with over thirty original papercut portraits. In Saints, historian and artist Amy Jeffs illuminates the lives of medieval saints, drawing on official biographies, vernacular romances, artworks, and poetry to tell of wayfaring monks, oak-felling missionaries, and mighty martyrs. Organized by feast month, this enchanting compendium presents the legends of Brigid, Patrick, Nicholas, and Augustine as well as saints whose stories are less well-known (Ia, Mungo, Scoithín, and Euphrosyne). Combining history and myth, tradition and invention, Jeffs offers transporting tales of demons and dragons, men raised by wolves, and women who commune with birds.
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Wild
ISBN-10: 1529424240 · ISBN-13: 9781529424249
Published: 2022-10-06
By the bestselling author of Storyland. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun: these are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar. In Wild, Amy Jeffs journeys - on foot and through medieval texts - from landscapes of desolation to hope, offering the reader an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. The seven chapters, entitled Earth, Ocean, Forest, Beast, Fen, Catastrophe, Paradise, open with fiction and close with reflection. They blend reflections of travels through fen, forest and cave, with retelling of medieval texts that offer rich depictions of the natural world. From the Old English elegies to the englynion and immrama of the Celtic world - stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature: women, outcasts, animals. Illustrated with original wood engravings, evoking an atmospheric world of whales, wolves, caves, cuckoos and reeds, Wild: Tales From Early Medieval Britain will leave readers feeling 'westendream': delight in the wilderness.
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Good Omens
ISBN-10: 0552159840 · ISBN-13: 9780552159845
Published: 2011-10-31
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter--the world's only "totally reliable guide to the future--the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...
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The Mask of Dimitrios
ISBN-10: ="0375726713" · ISBN-13: ="9780375726712"
Published: 1939
'Crime writer Charles Latimer becomes obsessed with Dimitrios Makropoulos and the web of crime & big business surrounding him.' according to entry in catalogue of John T. & Pearl Lewis, 'Leaway', Tresowes Green, Ashton, Nr.Helston, Cornwall, as listed in Website of Advanced Book Exchange. [Cataloguer's note].
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Blade Runner 2019: Vol. 1: Los Angeles Artist's Edition (Graphic Novel)
ISBN-10: 1787735303 · ISBN-13: 9781787735309
Published: 2021-01-26
A 128-page collection of the black and white artwork from the smash-hit, critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2019 comic seris drawn by Andres Guinaldo, collecting together issues #1 - #4 of the Los Angeles arc. This collection of Andres Guinaldo's artwork, previously unpublished in this form, includes never-before-seen layouts, roughs, thumbnails, sketches and cover roughs, giving a unique glimpse into the process of the artist. The collection also includes an interview between Andres and the writers Michael Green (co-screenplay writer of Blade Runner 2049,Logan and Murder on the Orient Express) and Mike Johnson (New York Times-bestselling writer of Star Trek,Transformers,Superman/Batman and Picard).
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Blade Runner 2019: Vol. 2: Off World (Graphic Novel)
ISBN-10: 1787731928 · ISBN-13: 9781787731929
Published: 2020-09-15
Winner of the 2020 SCRIBE AWARD for best Graphic Novel, this critically acclaimed graphic novel, is the official sequel to the cult classic 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. Co-written by Michael Green, the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Logan, Blade Runner 2049, and Murder on the Orient Express. From the rain soaked dystopic world of Los Angeles 2019 to the never-before-seen promised land of the Off-World colonies, Replicant-hating Blade Runner Ash' search for the runaway wife and child of a rich industrialist takes her where no other Blade Runner has ever gone before. Ash must deal with the life-changing after-effects of Titan Comics' Blade Runner 2019 storyline - but a powerful new threat puts her life in danger once more.
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Blade Runner 2019: Vol. 3: Home Again, Home Again (Graphic Novel)
ISBN-10: 1787731936 · ISBN-13: 9781787731936
Published: 2021-03-02
Winner of the 2020 SCRIBE AWARD for best Graphic Novel, this critically acclaimed graphic novel, is the official sequel to the cult classic 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. Co-written by Michael Green, the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Logan, Blade Runner 2049, and Murder on the Orient Express. The sins of the father are coming home. Ex-Blade Runner Ash and her charge, Cleo, have returned from the Off-World colonies to the rain-soaked dystopic future of Los Angeles, for a confrontation that will expose shocking secrets and reveal a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down an empire.
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Blade Runner: Origins Volume 3: Burning
ISBN-10: 1787739082 · ISBN-13: 9781787739086
Published: 2022-09-14
Los Angeles, 2009. Tyrell Corp executive Ilora Stahl has instigated a brutal purge of LA’s Sector 6-B, in an attempt to kill a rogue Nexus 5 prototype who is responsible for triggering an uprising of Nexus 4 Replicants. Now, with the sector ablaze, LAPD detective Cal Moreaux has joined forces with a former Tyrell Corp scientist, and a band of Replicant rebels and human sympathizers to stop the prototype and save the streets he and his sister once called home. Collects Blade Runner: Origins #9-12. “A series that perfectly captures the spirit of the Blade Runner universe.” – Comic Book Resources
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Blade Runner Origins Volume 2
ISBN-10: 1787738264 · ISBN-13: 9781787738263
Published: 2022-02-16
Los Angeles, 2009. Someone is triggering psychotic breakdowns in the NEXUS 4 REPLICANT population, sending once obedient servants on homicidal rampages. Ex-LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux has been ordered to hunt down and kill the instigator. Tasked by the Tyrell Corp executive Ilora Stahl to find a rogue Nexus 5 prototype, believed to be responsible for the attacks, Cal’s hunt has brought him back to the slum sector of LA where he and his sister grew up. Now, with time running out, Cal must unlock the shocking secret that led a Tyrell Corp scientist to commit suicide, and stop the renegade Replicant before it can corrupt the entire city. Written by the critically acclaimed writing team of K. Perkins and Mellow Brown, and illustrated by award-winning artist Fernando Dagnino, and colorist Marco Lesko. “A series that perfectly captures the spirit of the Blade Runner universe.” – Comic Book Resources “A riveting mystery that is both familiar and refreshing at the same time.” – Syfy Wire
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Blade Runner: Origins Volume 1
ISBN-10: 1787737330 · ISBN-13: 9781787737334
Published: 2021-08-18
Los Angeles, 2009 When the body of a Tyrell Corporation scientist working on an experimental new type of Replicant is discovered in her laboratory, an apparent suicide, LAPD detective Cal Moreaux is assigned to the case. Determined to find the truth behind the seemingly routine suicide, he encounters a deadly conspiracy within the Tyrell Corporation itself. Set ten years before the events of the critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2019 comic book series and the original Ridley Scott film, this in-canon prequel sees the birth of the Blade Runner department and introduces a new hero to the Blade Runner pantheon. Featuring stunning art by Fernando Dagnino and Marco Lesko, and a grippng story by K. Perkins & Mellow Brown, and Mike Johnson. “It is simply perfect! An absolute must-have for Blade Runner and cyberpunk fans alike.” – Big Comic Page “From the distinct cityscape to the 1920s look of the police station, it looks perfect. Top marks to the art team.” – The Pullbox
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Interesting Times
ISBN-10: 0552142352 · ISBN-13: 9780552142359
Published: 1995
A fantasy featuring the wizard Rincewind on a mission to an empire undergoing a cultural revolution reminiscent of the one in China. The novel's title is a play on the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." By the author of Men at Arms.
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Flowers for Algernon
ISBN-10: 1857989384 · ISBN-13: 9781857989380
Published: 2000
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
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The Night Manager
ISBN-10: 1844569144 · ISBN-13: 9781844569144
Published: 2008-10-16
The night manager is Jonathan, orphan son of a solder hero, too-young veteran of clandestine operations in the bandit country of South Armagh. In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, Jonathan has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade, but finds no escape from his demons. Driven partly by a desire for atonement and partly by an inherited patriotism, Jonathan allows himself to be recruited as a British secret agent with a mission to expose the murderer of the woman he himself betrayed. His odyssey takes him to the cliffs of West Cornwall, to the mining belt of Quebec province, to the decadent splendour of the Bahamas and the Caribbean, and post-Noriega Panama: but most fatefully to the jungles of secret Whitehall and Washington, where the unholy alliance between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade has its heart of darkness. The Night Manager is a story of majestic reach, funny, sad, captivating and constantly thrilling; a tale of wickedness and courage, love and greed, of one man’s search for himself in a world going to the devil – and of two women, one murdered and one living, who mysteriously direct his journey.
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Vesuvius Club
ISBN-10: 0743483790 · ISBN-13: 9780743483797
Published: 2005-07-04
A fiendishly clever and highly entertaining novel from the writer of Dr Who, The League of Gentlemen and Sherlock.
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The Port of London Murders
ISBN-10: 0712353615 · ISBN-13: 9780712353618
Published: 2020-10
"When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Pool of London, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms in the Bay of Biscay, the ship, along with the 'mixed cargo' it carries, is late. Unaware of the machinations of avaricious importers, wayward captains and unscrupulous traders, docklands resident Harry Reed and June Harvey are thrust together by a riverside accident, before being swept into the current of a dark plot developing on the harbourside.
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The Book of Dust: The Rose Field (Book of Dust, Volume 3)
ISBN-10: 0593306651 · ISBN-13: 9780593306659
Published: 2025-10-23
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The breathtaking conclusion to Philip Pullman’s landmark new trilogy The Book of Dust! Return to the world of His Dark Materials and discover what fate has in store for Lyra, “one of fantasy’s most indelible heroines” (The New York Times Magazine). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Horn Book, The Boston Globe Blue Ribbon Awards List “Pullman’s abilities as a storyteller are stupendous, and on full display.”—The Atlantic “Tremendously entertaining.”—Slate Lyra Silvertongue is alone in a city haunted by daemons, searching for her beloved Pan. Malcolm Polstead isn’t far behind, searching for Lyra. And they are both racing toward the desert of Karamakan, following the trail of roses said to hold the secret of Dust. Their allies and enemies are converging on the mysterious red building at the heart of the desert: Marcel Delamare and the military might of the Magisterium; the radical Men from the Mountains; scientists, scholars, and spies; troops of witches and other people of the air. And awaiting them all is a previously unseen and chilling new threat that will change everything. The intertwining odysseys of Malcolm and Lyra, their journeys both internal and external, will test their limits and challenge even their most dearly held beliefs. As ever, Philip Pullman is using the language of fantasy to illuminate our world and to explore the deepest questions of what it means to be alive and awake to all the splendors and horrors around us. The extraordinary novels of The Book of Dust speak powerfully to today’s readers and will take their place alongside the forever-favorites of His Dark Materials. Look for the entire trilogy of THE BOOK OF DUST: La Belle Sauvage • The Secret Commonwealth • The Rose Field And Lyra’s adventures begin in HIS DARK MATERIALS: The Golden Compass • The Subtle Knife • The Amber Spyglass
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The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two
ISBN-10: 0241373360 · ISBN-13: 9780241373361
Published: 2019-10-03
From the author of the phenomenal His Dark Materials comes the next chapter in the story of Lyra Silvertongue . . . Lyra is now studying at St Sophia's College, Oxford, with her daemon Pantalaimon. But, for the first time there are serious divisions between the two. Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear. Pan misses the impulsiveness of their youth. When an act of terrible violence breaks the peace of the Oxford night, Lyra and Pan's relationship reaches a crisis and they are drawn, far from home, into the dangerous factions of a world they had no idea existed. The Secret Commonwealth is truly a book for our times; a powerful adventure and a thought-provoking look at what it is to understand yourself and to grow up and make sense of the world around you. This is storytelling at its very best from one of our greatest writers. *Exclusive to the paperback edition, Chris Wormell's new original illustrations bring Lyra's world vividly to life.* _____ Reviews for The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two: "[Pullman] has created a fantasy world, made yet more satisfying in rigour and stylistic elegance. This is a book for getting older with" Guardian, Book of the Week "The Secret Commonwealth is ablaze with light and life. The writing is exquisite; every sentence sings ... To read Pullman is to experience the world refreshed, aglow, in Technicolour" i "Pullman's story is still thought-provoking ... This book elegantly weaves in live issues, from Europe's refugee crisis to facts in the post-truth era. And Pullman's prose is rewarding as ever" The Times "A long, taxing, complex journey, laced with beauty, terror and philosophy" Metro "As ever, Pullman's story is complex and vast but home to some of the finest storytelling in the 21st century. Revel in whole new worlds and enjoy one of literature's most wonderful heroines before she comes to HBO and the BBC" Stylist "Pullman is confronting readers with the horrors of our own world reflected back at us. In The Secret Commonwealthhe creates a fearful symmetry" The Herald
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La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
ISBN-10: 1409025470 · ISBN-13: 9781409025474
Published: 2017-10-19
WINNER- AUTHOR OF THE YEAR, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED- UK AUTHOR CATEGORY, NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018 Philip Pullman's magnificent bestseller is now in paperback, with new additional illustrations. A coming of age story like no other . . . Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in their canoe, La Belle Sauvage. But now as the rain builds, the world around Malcolm and Asta is, it seems, set to become increasingly far from ordinary. Finding himself linked to a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua, Malcolm is forced to undertake the challenge of his life and to make a dangerous journey that will change him and Lyra for ever . . .
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Night Soldiers
ISBN-10: 0753826356 · ISBN-13: 9780753826355
Published: 2009
Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale.
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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
ISBN-10: 0399579753 · ISBN-13: 9780399579752
Published: 2018-10-09
The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing. Revealing the 15 "beats" (plot points) that comprise a successful story--from the opening image to the finale--this book lays out the Ten Story Genres (Monster in the House; Whydunit; Dude with a Problem) alongside quirky, original insights (Save the Cat; Shard of Glass) to help novelists craft a plot that will captivate--and a novel that will sell.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
ISBN-10: 0593466497 · ISBN-13: 9780593466490
Published: 2024-06-25
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before. "Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years • One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.
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Guards! Guards!
ISBN-10: 0552166669 · ISBN-13: 9780552166669
Published: 2012-11-05
First book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch 'This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . _________________ 'It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hotdogs to the rest.' Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. Captain Sam Vimes of the city's ramshackle Night Watch is used to this. It's enough to drive a man to drink. Well, to drink more. But this time, something is different - the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they don't fully understand, and they're about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city. Time for Captain Vimes to sober up.
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Inspector Imanishi Investigates
ISBN-10: 1569479267 · ISBN-13: 9781569479261
Published: 2003-07-01
In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved. But Imanishi is dissatisfied, and a series of coincidences lead him back to the case. Why did a young woman scatter pieces of white paper out of the window of a train? Why did a bar girl leave for home right after Imanishi spoke to her? Why did an actor, on the verge of telling Imanishi something important, drop dead of a heart attack? What can a group of nouveau young artists possibly have to do with the murder of a quiet and “saintly” provincial old ex-policemen? Inspector Imanishi investigates.
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Pyramids
ISBN-10: 0552152641 · ISBN-13: 9780552152648
Published: 2004
It isn't easy being a teenage pharaoh, having to deal with assassins, sphinxes, mad high priests, gods, sacred crocodiles and marching mummies. And all you really want is the chance to do something for young people and the inner cities.
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Great Expectations
ISBN-10: 019818591X · ISBN-13: 9780198185918
Published: 1993
Great Expectations was first published as a weekly serial in All the Year Round, December 1860 - August 1861. Its first appearance in volume form was as three-volume novel, without illustrations, in July 1861. A one-volume edition, the next year, preceded its inclusion in the collected editions of Dickens's lifetime. The three-volume 1861 edition is the basis of the present text: variant readings, including those in manuscript and extant proofs, are recorded in the textual apparatus, providing an unusually rich source of information on Dickens's methods of composition. The Introduction traces this process of composition and draws attention to the two unperformed dramatic adaptations: the reading version and the 1861 play version, made as a safeguard of copyright. Appendices include the original ending, the author's notes, and two textual examinations, one of the five so-called `editions' of 1861, the other a comparison of the one-volume 1862 edition with the 1864 Library edition.
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Wyrd Sisters
ISBN-10: 0552166642 · ISBN-13: 9780552166645
Published: 2012-11-05
'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own . . . he is a satirist of enormous talent' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . ___________________ 'Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.' Three witches - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick - have gathered on a lonely heath. A king has been cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. An infant heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing . . . Witches don't have these kind of dynastic problems themselves – in fact, they don’t have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders the witches don't have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe . . . ___________________ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Wyrd Sisters is the second book in the Witches series.
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Oliver Twist
ISBN-10: 1502961032 · ISBN-13: 9781502961037
Published: 1992
Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. In Oliver Twist, Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, full of prostitutes, thieves and lost and homeless children, and gives a voice to the disadvantaged and abused.
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Sourcery
ISBN-10: 0552131075 · ISBN-13: 9780552131070
Published: 1989-07-01
There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared...a source of magic...a Sourcerer. SOURCERY SEES THE RETURN OF RINCEWIND AND THE LUGGAGE AS THE DISCWORLD FACES ITS GREATEST - AND FUNNIEST - CHALLENGE YET.
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How to Read Literature
ISBN-10: 0300195354 · ISBN-13: 9780300195354
Published: 2013-05-21
DIV What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others. How to Read Literature is the book of choice for students new to the study of literature and for all other readers interested in deepening their understanding and enriching their reading experience. In a series of brilliant analyses, Eagleton shows how to read with due attention to tone, rhythm, texture, syntax, allusion, ambiguity, and other formal aspects of literary works. He also examines broader questions of character, plot, narrative, the creative imagination, the meaning of fictionality, and the tension between what works of literature say and what they show. Unfailingly authoritative and cheerfully opinionated, the author provides useful commentaries on classicism, Romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism along with spellbinding insights into a huge range of authors, from Shakespeare and J. K. Rowling to Jane Austen and Samuel Beckett. /div
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Mort
ISBN-10: 0575064080 · ISBN-13: 9780575064089
Published: 1987
Mort has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging and free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral. The trouble begins when instead of collecting the soul of a princess, he kills her would-be assassin, and changes history.
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Equal Rites
ISBN-10: 0552131059 · ISBN-13: 9780552131056
Published: 1987
Fantasy-roman.
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From Hell
ISBN-10: ="0861661419" · ISBN-13: ="9780861661411"
Published: 2006
In graphic novel format, offers a fictional investigation into a series of murders in 1888 London carried out by the infamous Jack the Ripper.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 4: the Tempest
ISBN-10: 0861662881 · ISBN-13: 9780861662883
Published: 2021-07-22
After an epic twenty-year journey through the entirety of human culture, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series' spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest. Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world's most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume III): Century
ISBN-10: 160309329X · ISBN-13: 9781603093293
Published: 2014-08-05
From 1910 to 2009, Volume Three spans an entire century, but that may not be enough time for the League to defeat their newest threat. Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's pulp adventure literary mash-up returns. The nineteenth century, expiring with a flourish of Moriarty and Martians, has left the Division of Military Intelligence commanded by Mina Murray in a state of disrepair. While she and her lover, Allan Quatermain, have achieved a measure of eternal youth and recruited new talents such as the trans-gendered immortal Orlando, the ghost-finder Thomas Carnacki, and the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles to replace their deceased or missing colleagues, former associate Captain Nemo has retired to his Pacific pirate island to decline in surly isolation. Now it is the early years of a new and unfamiliar century, and forces are emerging that appear to promise ruin for the Murray group, the nation, and, indeed, the world, even if it will take a hundred years for this apocalyptic threat to come to its disastrous fruition. From the occult parlours and crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal, mystical, and psychedelic underworlds of 1969, to the financially and culturally desolated streets of 2009, the disintegrating remnants of Miss Murray and her League must combat not only the hidden hand of their undying adversary, but also the ethical and psychological collapse accompanying this new era. And a lot of things can happen in a CENTURY!
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
ISBN-10: ="140120306X" · ISBN-13: ="9781401203061"
Published: 2007
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol.2
ISBN-10: 1401236596 · ISBN-13: 9781401236595
Published: 2004-08-24
The second collection of one of the most beloved comics miniseries of our time is here! This story immediately follows the events of THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Volume I! The distinguished cast of Victorian heroes-Allan Quatermain, Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, The Invisible Man, and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde-once again answers the call of mother England to face the most unimaginable and fearsome foes ever: invaders from Mars! As London is attacked, leaving the Thames aglow from burning husks of tenements, mass hysteria seizes the nation. But now is the time for courage, for self-sacrifice, for valor ... and for treachery!
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1
ISBN-10: 1401200524 · ISBN-13: 9781401200527
Published: 2003
A story set in an alternate Victorian England in which the British Empire recruits Wilhelmina Murray, Alan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to combat its enemies.
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A Perfect Spy
ISBN-10: 0241322499 · ISBN-13: 9780241322499
Published: 2018-09-27
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own. Described by le Carré as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is. 'Le Carré understood that espionage is an extreme version of the human comedy, even the human tragedy. A Perfect Spy will very likely remain his greatest book' New Yorker
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Neuromancer
ISBN-10: 0143111604 · ISBN-13: 9780143111603
Published: 2016-10-25
A deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering cyberpunk novel that predicted our obsession with the Internet—part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman Winner of the AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition Before the Internet was commonplace, William Gibson showed us the Matrix—a world within the world, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace. Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he’s ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction. Penguin Galaxy Six of our greatest masterworks of science fiction and fantasy, in dazzling collector-worthy hardcover editions, and featuring a series introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Penguin Galaxy represents a constellation of achievement in visionary fiction, lighting the way toward our knowledge of the universe, and of ourselves. From historical legends to mythic futures, monuments of world-building to mind-bending dystopias, these touchstones of human invention and storytelling ingenuity have transported millions of readers to distant realms, and will continue for generations to chart the frontiers of the imagination. The Once and Future King by T. H. White Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Dune by Frank Herbert 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Neuromancer by William Gibson For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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How Fiction Works
ISBN-10: 1429908653 · ISBN-13: 9781429908658
Published: 2008-07-22
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we "know" a fictional character? What constitutes a telling detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is Realism realistic? Why do some literary conventions become dated while others stay fresh? James Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Make Way for Ducklings, from the Bible to John le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, How Fiction Works will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone else interested in what happens on the page.
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My Brilliant Friend
ISBN-10: 160945863X · ISBN-13: 9781609458638
Published: 2012-09-10
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists, the unforgettable Elena and Lila. Ferrante is the author of three previous works of critically acclaimed fiction: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, and The Lost Daughter. With this novel, the first in a trilogy, she proves herself to be one of Italy's great storytellers. She has given her readers a masterfully plotted page-turner, abundant and generous in its narrative details and characterizations, that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight her many fans and win new readers to her fiction.
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The Village of Eight Graves
ISBN-10: 1782277404 · ISBN-13: 9781782277408
Published: 2021-12-02
'With a reputation in Japan to rival Agatha Christie's, the master of ingenious plotting is finally on the case for anglophone readers' Guardian The third title in Japan's most popular murder mystery series -- after The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse -- fiendish classics featuring investigator Kosuke Kindaichi Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurais, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village. Centuries later a mysterious young man named Tatsuya arrives in town, bringing a spate of deadly poisonings in his wake. The inimitably scruffy and brilliant Kosuke Kindaichi investigates.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
ISBN-10: 0613916662 · ISBN-13: 9780613916660
Published: 1996-05-28
Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers
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Venomous Lumpsucker
ISBN-10: 147361354X · ISBN-13: 9781473613546
Published: 2022-07-14
*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR* 'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times 'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily Mail The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might have just gone extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody really cares, either. Except for two people. Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish is gone for good, and biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other an inch, but they're left with no choice but to team up in search of the lumpsucker. And as they journey across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe - a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the Baltic Sea; the lethal hinterlands of a totalitarian state - they're drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish. 'A laugh-out-loud novel about mass extinction (yes, really)' Sunday Times 'Confirms his reputation as one of the foremost satirists of his generation' The Times
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
ISBN-10: 1925774007 · ISBN-13: 9781925774009
Published: 2018-10-01
A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
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Batman: The Killing Joke Deluxe (New Edition)
ISBN-10: 1401294057 · ISBN-13: 9781401294052
Published: 2019-09-17
Critically acclaimed author Alan Moore redefined graphic novel story-telling with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker, and changes Batman's world forever. ONE BAD DAY. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. Can he finally put an end to the cycle of bloodlust and lunacy that links these two iconic foes before it leads to its fatal conclusion? And as the horrifying origin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman's nobility and the Joker's insanity snap once and for all? Legendary writer Alan Moore redefined the superhero with Watchmen and V For Vendetta. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, the Joker--and changes Batman's world forever. Stunningly illustrated, Batman: The Killing Joke The Deluxe Edition has been lushly recolored by artist Brian Bolland, presenting his original vision of this modern classic. This new edition includes Batman: The Killing Joke and stories from Batman: Black and White #4 and Countdown #31, along with numerous Batman and Joker covers and sketches by Brian Bolland, including artwork only previously published in the Absolute edition!
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Batman: Year One (New Edition)
ISBN-10: 1401284272 · ISBN-13: 9781401284275
Published: 2018-09
In 1986, writer Frank Miller joined with artist David Mazzucchelli to create one of the most groundbreaking superhero tales ever to see print--BATMAN: YEAR ONE, now featuring bonus content in a paperback format! Originally published over four issues in the monthly BATMAN series, this mesmerizing story followed the unprecedented success of Miller's apocalyptic saga BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS to become one of the most popular and influential graphic novels in the history of American comics. By turns brutal, tender, grim and hopeful, Miller and Mazzucchelli's masterful reimagination of Bruce Wayne's first year as Gotham City's champion has electrified generations of readers with its unprecedented fusion of gritty realism and elegance of form. Now, DC is proud to present a special new paperback collection of this modern comics classic. Featuring digitally remastered art, introductions by Miller and series editor Dennis O'Neil and an illustrated afterword by Mazzucchelli, BATMAN: YEAR ONE (NEW EDITION) also contains more than 40 pages of behind-the-scenes material, including the complete script and pencil breakdowns for BATMAN #407.
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Batman: the Dark Knight Returns (DC Modern Classics Edition)
ISBN-10: 1401285317 · ISBN-13: 9781401285319
Published: 2019-08-20
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! It is ten years after an aging Batman has retired and Gotham City has sunk deeper into decadence and lawlessness. Now as his city needs him most, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of glory. Joined by Carrie Kelly, a teenage female Robin, Batman takes to the streets to end the threat of the mutant gangs that have overrun the city. And after facing off against his two greatest enemies, the Joker and Two-Face for the final time, Batman finds himself in mortal combat with his former ally, Superman, in a battle that only one of them will survive. This collection is hailed as a comics masterpiece and was responsible for the launch of the Batman movies. This volume collects Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4.
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Batman: The Man Who Laughs: The Deluxe Edition
ISBN-10: 1779503024 · ISBN-13: 9781779503022
Published: 2020-10-27
The deluxe edition featuring critically acclaimed writer Ed Brubaker's seminal run on the Dark Knight and The Joker. Witness Batman's first encounter with The Joker in this volume collecting the graphic novel BATMAN: THE MAN WHO LAUGHS by Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke! This collection also includes DETECTIVE COMICS #784-786, a murder mystery tale guest-starring Green Lantern Alan Scott.
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Batman: The Cult: The Deluxe Edition
ISBN-10: 1799504662 · ISBN-13: 9781799504665
Published: 2024-10-08
Batman has faced a multitude of foes throughout his career, but he’s never faced anyone like the charismatic Deacon Blackfire. By manipulating the minds of the homeless and downtrodden, Blackfire has amassed an army willing to follow his every command—and Batman may become his latest acolyte! Will Blackfire succeed in breaking the Dark Knight’s spirit? This deluxe edition of the classic miniseries by JIM STARLIN (Batman) and BERNIE WRIGHTSON (Swamp Thing) collects all four issues plus a never-before-seen gallery of original art by Wrightson.
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Batman Arkham Asylum 25th Anniversary
ISBN-10: 1401255779 · ISBN-13: 9781401255770
Published: 2014-11-11
One of the greatest Batman stories ever told, BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM is celebrated in this 25th Anniversary Edition. The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham's detention center for the criminally insane on April Fool's Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to endure the personal hells of the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the prison. During his run through this absurd gauntlet, the Dark Knight must face down both his most dangerous foes and his inner demons. This is the critically acclaimed Batman story that helped launch the U.S. careers of Grant Morrison and Dave McKean.
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Perdido Street Station
ISBN-10: 0330467190 · ISBN-13: 9780330467193
Published: 2008-08-28
Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag. The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants linger in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror – and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike. The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.
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Karla's Choice
ISBN-10: 1405969849 · ISBN-13: 9781405969840
Published: 2024-10-24
A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carré. It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy...
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The Mirror and the Light
ISBN-10: 0007580835 · ISBN-13: 9780007580835
Published: 2020-03
Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. 'A masterpiece' Guardian 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century' Observer 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.
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The Owl Service
ISBN-10: 0613221443 · ISBN-13: 9780613221443
Published: 1999
In this Carnegie Medal-winning classic, young people discover that patterns on their plates form owls, which disappear when no one is watching. With each vanished owl, strange events begin to happen. As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within a local legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations.
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Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
ISBN-10: 0008476675 · ISBN-13: 9780008476670
Published: 2023-04-04
A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 2024 The Sunday Times Bestseller and Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Sunday Times History Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller
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Bring Up the Bodies
ISBN-10: 0007315090 · ISBN-13: 9780007315093
Published: 2012
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 With this historic win for BRING UP THE BODIES, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes, as well as being the first to win with two consecutive novels. Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning WOLF HALL, we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible rise of Thomas Cromwell as he contrives the destruction of Anne Boleyn. By 1535 Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn. But the split from the Catholic Church has left England dangerously isolated, and Anne has failed to give the king an heir. Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Negotiating the politics of the court, Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne's final days. An astounding literary accomplishment, BRING UP THE BODIES is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists.
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Get in Trouble
ISBN-10: 1782113843 · ISBN-13: 9781782113843
Published: 2015-02-19
Fantastic, fantastical and utterly incomparable, Kelly Link's new collection explores everything from the essence of ghosts to the nature of love. And hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the pyramids . . . With each story she weaves, Link takes readers deep into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed universe. Strange, dark and wry, Get in Trouble reveals Kelly Link at the height of her creative powers and stretches the boundaries of what fiction can do.
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Hunters in the Dark
ISBN-10: 1781090335 · ISBN-13: 9781781090336
Published: 2015
Adrift in Cambodia, Robert Grieve âe" pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher âe" decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events involving a bag of âe~jinxedâe(tm) money, a suave American, a corrupt policeman and a rich doctorâe(tm)s daughter, in which Robertâe(tm)s life is changed forever. Alive with malice and grace, this is a taut tale reminiscent of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith: a story of double identities, and innocence in the midst of evil, from a master of atmosphere and observation.
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House of Leaves
ISBN-10: 038560310X · ISBN-13: 9780385603102
Published: 2000
Discover the nightmarish tale of a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside that still inspires devotion among an army of fans... Experimental in terms of design, typography, structure and content, this is a fully immersive and novel reading experience you won't be able to forget. Perfect for fans of Twin Peaks, Black Mirror, Stranger Things and IT. 'House of Leaves has continued to reward readers prepared to navigate its labyrinth, with a community of fans ready to support them if they ever get lost in the dark' - Guardian 'At once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read' - Observer 'Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent' - BRET EASTON ELLIS WHAT READERS ARE SAYING- 'I've never read anything like it' - 5 STARS 'Strange, highly addictive and slowly creepy' - 5 STARS 'A book like no other' - 5 STARS 'The creativity and originality is astonishing' - 5 STARS 'Unreservedly recommended' - 5 STARS 'Buy it, read it, and explore it' - 5 STARS ******************************************************************************************** A young couple - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green - move into a small home on Ash Tree Lane. But something is terribly wrong - their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Neither Will nor Karen are prepared to face the consequences of this impossibility. What happens next is loosely recorded on videotapes and interviews, leading to a compilation of the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane, unveiling a thrilling and terrifying history. Loose sheets, stained napkins and crammed notebooks prove to be far more than the ramblings of a crazy old man . . . ___________________ Winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award
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Fever Dream
ISBN-10: 0399184597 · ISBN-13: 9780399184598
Published: 2017
A nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale.
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Tokyo Express
ISBN-10: 0141992530 · ISBN-13: 9780141992532
Published: 2022-06-30
'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times 'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.' In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime... Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.
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Beowulf
ISBN-10: 0571250726 · ISBN-13: 9780571250721
Published: 2009-02-19
Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels between this story and the history of the twentieth century, nor can Heaney's Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light of his Northern Irish upbringing. But it also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating.
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Grasshopper Jungle
ISBN-10: 0142425001 · ISBN-13: 9780142425008
Published: 2015-02-17
Includes an excerpt from the Andrew Smith novel, The Alex crow.
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Grendel
ISBN-10: ="0679723110" · ISBN-13: ="9780679723110"
Published: 1989
For use in schools and libraries only. The Beowulf story retold from the monster's point of view reveals the darker side of human nature and values.
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Asterix and the Banquet
ISBN-10: 0752872672 · ISBN-13: 9780752872674
Published: 2005-11
THE RETURN OF ASTERIX, THE WORLD'S FIRST SUPERHERO: "
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Asterix the Gladiator
ISBN-10: 0752872664 · ISBN-13: 9780752872667
Published: 2010-04-06
In this adventure, Asterix the Gaul and his friend Obelix travel to Rome to rescue their bard, Cacofonix. Whilst there, they manage to become gladiators, performing in front of Caesar himself.
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Asterix and The Goths
ISBN-10: 1444013106 · ISBN-13: 9781444013108
Published: 2014-01-02
Asterix and Obelix escort Getafix to the druids' annual conference in the Forest of the Carnutes. Little do they know that the Goths are lying in ambush, ready to kidnap the Druid of the Year - who of course is Getafix! But what with Gauls, Goths and Romans all at odds, it's hard to tell friend from foe... until Goths begin fighting Goths in the Asterixian Wars.
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Asterix and the Golden Sickle
ISBN-10: 0752866125 · ISBN-13: 9780752866123
Published: 2004-04-15
It's a disaster - the druid Getafix has broken his golden sickle. Asterix and Obelix go to Lutetia (now Paris) to buy him a new one. Soon they are tangling with the criminal underworld of the big city - can they outwit Navishtrix, Clovogarlix and the sickle-trafficking gang? Will Getafix ever be able to brew magic potion again?
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Asterix The Gaul
ISBN-10: 0752871889 · ISBN-13: 9780752871882
Published: 2006-03
THE ADVENTURES OF ASTERIX, THE WORLD'S FIRST SUPERHERO.
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The Crying of Lot 49
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 1966
Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to sort through Pierce's affairs. Pierce, however, did not intend for the job to be an easy one for Oedipa, and soon she becomes ensared in a surreal, hilarious, and puzzling world-wide conspiracy centered around Pierce's strange business partners and dealings.
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The Old Woman With the Knife
ISBN-10: 1838856447 · ISBN-13: 9781838856441
Published: 2022-03-03
She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn’t mind leaving this world through an untimely death. Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. But while on an assassination job for the ‘disease control’ company she works for, Hornclaw makes an uncharacteristic error, causing a sequence of events that brings her past well and truly into the present. Threatened with sabotage by a young male upstart and battling new desires and urges when she least expects them, Hornclaw steels her resolve, demonstrating that no matter their age, the female of the species is always more deadly than the male.
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Piranesi
ISBN-10: 1526631008 · ISBN-13: 9781526631008
Published: 2020
"Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food and waterlilies to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous."--Publisher.
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Tell Me an Ending
ISBN-10: 1529151392 · ISBN-13: 9781529151398
Published: 2022-05-12
'Compelling' GUARDIAN 'Incredibly well written . . . I really enjoyed it' MARIAN KEYES 'One of the most sophisticated works of science fiction I've read recently' NEW YORK TIMES The promise at Nepenthe is simple: they will erase the memories you cannot live with. After the procedure, psychologist Noor will assess you for two things: your mental wellbeing, and the successful erasure of the memory. But there is no assessment if you choose to delete the memory of the Nepenthe procedure itself. If you do that, you're on your own. And what if one day, out of the blue, your memory is offered back to you - would you want to remember what you've chosen to forget? 'Extraordinary' EMMA STONEX 'Riveting' KAREN THOMPSON WALKER 'Utterly captivating' LUCY CLARKE Thought-provoking. I loved it' MARCEL THEROUX
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Promethea Book Five
ISBN-10: 1401249736 · ISBN-13: 9781401249731
Published: 2006-09-05
The final volume of PROMETHEA, collecting issues #26-32! This is the story of the end of the world, of the last days before the Apocalypse, with guest stars from around the America's Best globe who try to do what they always do: save the day!
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Bad Actors
ISBN-10: 1641293373 · ISBN-13: 9781641293372
Published: 2022-05-10
THE EIGHTH BOOK IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC), expands his world of bad spies with an even shadier cast of characters: the politicians, lobbyists, and misinformation agents pulling the levers of government policy. “Confirms Mick Herron as the best spy novelist now working.”—NPR's Fresh Air In London's MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster—a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate—has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads him straight back to Regent's Park itself, with First Desk Diana Taverner as chief suspect. Has Taverner overplayed her hand at last? Meanwhile, her Russian counterpart, Moscow intelligence's First Desk, has cheekily showed up in London and shaken off his escort. Are the two unfortunate events connected? Over at Slough House, where Jackson Lamb presides over some of MI5's most embittered demoted agents, the slow horses are doing what they do best, and adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation . . . There are bad actors everywhere, and they usually get their comeuppance before the credits roll. But politics is a dirty business, and in a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing are the norm, sometimes the good guys can find themselves outgunned.
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Promethea Book Four
ISBN-10: 1401244653 · ISBN-13: 9781401244651
Published: 2005-03-22
The conclusion of Promethea's sprawling tour of the higher realms of the spirit is collected in this collection reprinting PROMETHEA #19-25!
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Promethea Book Four
ISBN-10: 1401244653 · ISBN-13: 9781401244651
Published: 2005-03-22
The conclusion of Promethea's sprawling tour of the higher realms of the spirit is collected in this collection reprinting PROMETHEA #19-25!
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Promethea Book Two
ISBN-10: 1401243681 · ISBN-13: 9781401243685
Published: 2002-12-31
This collection follows Sophie Bangs, the latest in a long line of Prometheas, on a winding journey of discovery as she continues to learn the secrets of the Immateria...and herself. Her transcendental adventure brings young Sophie to realms of magic and wonder that none have experienced before. Collecting PROMETHEA issues #7-12, this book contains such fan-favorite stories as "Rocks and Hard Places," where Sophie learns about the Promethea named Bill, and "Sex, Stars, and Serpents," where Sophie learns some valuable lessons.
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The Year 200
ISBN-10: 1632060175 · ISBN-13: 9781632060174
Published: 2016-07-12
The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agustín de Rojas’s The Year 200 is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power. Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos.” When the Empire returns and takes over the minds of unsuspecting citizens in a scenario that terrifyingly recalls Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the world’s fate falls into the hands of two brave women. Originally published in 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the onset of Cuba's devastating Special Period, Agustín de Rojas’s magnum opus brings contemporary trajectories to their logical extremes and boldly asks, “What does ‘the greatest good for the greatest number’ really mean?”
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Slough House
ISBN-10: 1785419943 · ISBN-13: 9781785419942
Published: 2021
A year after the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from Novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. Meanwhile, Slough House has been wiped from Service records, and fatal accidents keep happening. No wonder Jackson Lamb's crew are feeling paranoid. With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets, and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass. But the slow horses aren't famed for making wise decisions.
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Joe Country
ISBN-10: 147365744X · ISBN-13: 9781473657441
Published: 2019-06-11
'We're spies,' said Lamb. 'All kinds of outlandish shit goes on.' Like the ringing of a dead man's phone, or an unwelcome guest at a funeral . . . In Slough House memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil . . . And with winter taking its grip Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score. This time, they're heading into joe country. And they're not all coming home.
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London Rules
ISBN-10: 1399803085 · ISBN-13: 9781399803083
Published: 2022-03-03
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans* *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 'The best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday Express At Regent's Park, the Intelligence Service HQ, new First Desk Claude Whelan is learning the job the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered Prime Minister, he's facing attack from all directions: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble. Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks. Over at Slough House, the last stop for washed up spies, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - making a bad situation much, much worse. 'Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation' Val McDermid 'Dazzingly inventive' Sunday Times
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Spook Street
ISBN-10: 1785416456 · ISBN-13: 9781785416453
Published: 2019
What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask when his grandfather, a Cold War-era operative, starts to forget to wear trousers and begins to suspect everyone in his life has been sent by the Home Office to watch him. But River has other things to worry about. A bomb has detonated in the middle of a busy shopping centre and killed more than forty innocent civilians. The agents of Slough House have to figure out who is behind this act of terror before the situation escalates.
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Promethea Book One
ISBN-10: 1401243673 · ISBN-13: 9781401243678
Published: 2001-07-10
Sophie Bangs was a just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when a simple assignment changed her life forever. While researching Promethea, a mythical warrior woman, Sophie receives a cryptic warning to cease herinvestigations. Ignoring the cautionary notice, she continues her studies and is almost killed by a shadowy creature when she learns the secret of Promethea. Surviving the encounter, Sophie soon finds herself transformed into Promethea, the livingembodiment of the imagination. Her trials have only begun as she must master the secrets of her predecessors before she is destroyed by Promethea's ancient enemy. Collects issues #1-6.
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Real Tigers
ISBN-10: 1616957980 · ISBN-13: 9781616957988
Published: 2017-01-03
When one of their own is kidnapped, the washed-up MI5 operatives of Slough House—the Slow Horses, as they're known—outwit rogue agents at the very highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself. London: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they’ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The “Slow Horses,” as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action. When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, the agents of Slough House must defeat the odds, overturning all expectations of their competence, to breach the top-notch security of MI5’s intelligence headquarters, Regent’s Park, and steal valuable intel in exchange for their comrade’s safety. The kidnapping is only the tip of the iceberg, however—the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but the highest authorities in the Secret Service. After years spent as the lowest on the totem pole, the Slow Horses suddenly find themselves caught in the midst of a conspiracy that threatens not only the future of Slough House, but of MI5 itself.
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Illuminations
ISBN-10: 152664312X · ISBN-13: 9781526643124
Published: 2022-10-11
'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONE In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality. In A Hypothetical Lizard, two concubines in a brothel for fantastical specialists fall in love, with tragic ramifications. In Not Even Legend, a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In Illuminations, a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella What We Can Know About Thunderman, which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years through several sometimes-naive and sometimes-maniacal people rising and falling on its career ladders, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that - a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic. 'One of the most significant fiction writers in English ... Moore's influence can be felt everywhere-in our literature, on our screens, in our politics' GUARDIAN Illuminations became a Sunday Times Top 5 Bestseller on 15th October 2022
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Third Policeman
ISBN-10: 1628975776 · ISBN-13: 9781628975772
Published: 2024-03-19
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe, " he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him. The last of O'Brien's novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O'Brien's other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, and The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.
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Prophet Song
ISBN-10: 0861545907 · ISBN-13: 9780861545902
Published: 2023-08-24
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023 A Book of the Year for 2023 according to the Guardian, FT, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Economist, Big Issue, Daily Telegraph, Irish Times and Waterstones 'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, Larry, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe. Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times. 'A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine — what if this was me?' FT
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Slough House
ISBN-10: 1641292369 · ISBN-13: 9781641292368
Published: 2021-02-09
In his best and most ambitious novel yet, Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC), offers an unsparing look at the corrupt web of media, global finance, spycraft, and politics that power our modern world. “This is a darker, scarier Herron. The gags are still there but the satire's more biting. The privatization of a secret service op and the manipulation of news is relevant and horribly credible.”—Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera Stanhope series At Slough House—MI5’s London depository for demoted spies—Brexit has taken a toll. The “slow horses” have been pushed further into the cold, Slough House has been erased from official records, and its members are dying in unusual circumstances, at an unusual clip. No wonder Jackson Lamb's crew is feeling paranoid. But are they actually targets? With a new populist movement taking hold of London's streets and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's a dangerous place for those deemed surplus. Jackson Lamb and the slow horses are in a fight for their lives as they navigate dizzying layers of lies, power, and death.
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Dead Lions
ISBN-10: 1473674190 · ISBN-13: 9781473674196
Published: 2017-07-27
Winner of the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger Award A BBC Front Row best crime novel of the year A Times crime and thriller book of the year 'The finest new crime series this millennium' Mail on Sunday Dickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination. But once a spook, always a spook. And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on a bus. A shadow. Good at following people, bringing home their secrets. Dickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb. Now Lamb's got his phone, and on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Service's back-yard. In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb's crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live . . .
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Birnam Wood
ISBN-10: 0771024398 · ISBN-13: 9780771024399
Published: 2024-06-11
From the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries comes an electrifying thriller about ambition, greed, environmental collapse, and how even our best intentions can lead to deadly consequences. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize, Orwell Prize, and the Ockham Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award CBC Books' #1 Canadian Novel of the Year A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, the Globe and Mail, NPR, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Financial Times, Slate, Kirkus Reviews, The Telegraph, Indigo, Apple iBooks Canada A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster has created an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For Mira, Birnam Wood’s founder, occupying the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. The enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker, or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira and Birnam Wood, he makes them an offer that would set them up for the long term. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another? Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, unflinching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
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Pink Slime
ISBN-10: 1668049783 · ISBN-13: 9781668049785
Published: 2025-07-22
Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant • “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you.” —Esquire A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them edges toward apocalypse. In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford—a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows—even if staying means being left behind. An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, Pink Slime is buoyed by humor and its narrator’s resiliency. This vivid and unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge.
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Lord of the Flies
ISBN-10: ="0140283331" · ISBN-13: ="9780140283334"
Published: 1962
Introduction by E.M. Forster.
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A Legacy of Spies
ISBN-10: 0241981239 · ISBN-13: 9780241981238
Published: 2017-09-07
'A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' Evening Standard 'Vintage le Carré. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carré exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian Peter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Service, has long retired to Brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to London. The reason? Cold War ghosts have come back to haunt him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of the Service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the Berlin Wall. Somebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater good . . . 'Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carré. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' Daily Mail 'Splendid, fast-paced, riveting' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times 'Remarkable. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carré's writing has got richer with age' The Times 'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' Ian McEwan 'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris Sunday Times bestseller, September 2017
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The Secret Pilgrim
ISBN-10: 0141967447 · ISBN-13: 9780141967448
Published: 2011-05-26
The last of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance, The Secret Pilgrim is published in Penguin Modern Classics with an afterword by the author. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers. If you enjoyed The Secret Pilgrim, you might like le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Consummate and enthralling' Observer
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The Three-Body Problem
ISBN-10: 1466853441 · ISBN-13: 9781466853447
Published: 2014-11-11
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”—Barack Obama • “Provocative.”—Slate • “A breakthrough book.”—George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”—GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”—NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”—The Washington Post The Three-Body Problem is the first novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. The Three-Body Problem Series The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books by Cixin Liu Ball Lightning Supernova Era To Hold Up the Sky The Wandering Earth A View from the Stars At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Untraceable
ISBN-10: 1800246625 · ISBN-13: 9781800246621
Published: 2021-03-04
'A superb literary thriller' The Times, Book of the Week 'A thriller dipped in poison... Lebedev shares some of le Carré's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' New York Times An extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons of all kinds: physical, moral and political. Professor Kalitin is a ruthless, narcissistic chemist who has developed an untraceable, extremely lethal poison called Neophyte while working in a secret city on an island in the Russian far east. When the Soviet Union collapses, he defects and is given a new identity in Germany. After an unrelated Russian is murdered with Kalitin's poison, his cover is blown and he's drawn into the German investigation of the death. Two special forces killers with a lot of Chechen blood on their hands are sent to silence him – using his own undetectable poison. Their journey to their target is full of blunders, mishaps, holdups and accidents. Praise for Sergei Lebedev: 'One of Russia's most interesting young novelists takes on Putin, poison and power in this unique novel; Lebedev provides a fascinating window on modern Russia' Anne Applebaum 'Turn off your television sets and get reading. Sergei Lebedev writes not of the past, but of today' Svetlana Alexievich 'Lebedev's books dealt with history – it lay like a shadow over everything he wrote – and the fact that its presence was so powerful suggested that the conflicts and tensions inherent in it were still unresolved, still had a bearing on Russian society in obscure yet palpable ways' Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Julia
ISBN-10: 1783789158 · ISBN-13: 9781783789153
Published: 2023-10-19
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "a fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own" The Guardian London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive. But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department - a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith, she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world. Seventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.
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1984
ISBN-10: 1784876550 · ISBN-13: 9781784876555
Published: 2021-03-30
Probably the most influential novel of the twentieth century, 1984 has been described as chilling, absorbing, satirical, momentous, prophetic and terrifying. This edition, with an introduction by novelist Robert Harris, marks the sixtieth anniversary of this great work’s publication.
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Fiasco
ISBN-10: 0241337860 · ISBN-13: 9780241337868
Published: 2018-07-05
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...
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Smiley's People
ISBN-10: 0340994398 · ISBN-13: 9780340994399
Published: 2009-11-26
Smiley's People is one of John le Carré's classic Cold War novels and George Smiley one of his most acclaimed characters. Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalence steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and to Hamburg for his last duel with his Russian opposite number, codnamed Karla.
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The Honourable Schoolboy
ISBN-10: 184456908X · ISBN-13: 9781844569083
Published: 2009-06-25
George Smiley has become acting Chief of the Circus, or rather what remains of it. For the credibility of the British Secret Service has been shattered by his unmasking of a traitor within. It is being starved of funds by Whitehall, and sidelined by its American cousins. Smiley’s appointment, therefore, seems more like retribution than promotion. Yet from the first he goes onto the attack. His adversary is Karla, workname of the Soviet case officer who masterminded the Circus’s ruin. His battleground is Hong Kong, and his choice of weapons is the Honourable Gerald Westerby, Eastern hand and Fleet Street hack. Westerby’s odyssey takes him to collapsing Cambodia and Vietnam, to the insurgency area of North East Thailand and finally to the southernmost tip of the Hong Kong archipelago, to the very edge of the China Sea. His belated coming of age, his bounding humanity striving to get out, his courage and his recognition of love, are set in mounting dramatic contrast to the ever-growing needs of the service that claims his allegiance.
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Maskerade
ISBN-10: 0575058080 · ISBN-13: 9780575058088
Published: 1995
"The Opera House in Ankh-Morpork is home to music, theatrics, and a harmless masked Ghost. But the seemingly benign spirit may be a psychopathic phantom responsible for a series of bizarre backstage deaths. Now, the operatic debut of a country girl from Lancre named Perdita X-the stage name of Agnes Nitt-is in jeopardy. The problem is, Agnes doesn't quite look the part of an opera star. And there are two witches who want her to return home to join their coven. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are determined to convince Agnes that life as a witch is more rewarding than the stage-especially since she's expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. Only now they're caught up in a murder mystery featuring masks and maniacal laughter. Yet no phantasmagoric fiend is going to run off a pair of rural hags after they've seen Ankh-Morpork. After all, the show must go on. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Maskerade is the fifth book in the Witches series"--
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The Orwell Tour
ISBN-10: 1785789627 · ISBN-13: 9781785789625
Published: 2023-07-06
A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell. Over three years he travelled from Wigan to Catalonia, Paris to Motihari, Marrakesh to Eton, and in each location explored both how Orwell experienced the place, and how the place now remembers him as a literary icon. Beginning in Northern India, where Orwell was born in 1903, and ending in the Oxfordshire village of Sutton Courtenay, where he was laid to rest in 1950, The Orwell Tour offers an accessible and informative new biography of Orwell through the lens of place.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ISBN-10: 0241323452 · ISBN-13: 9780241323458
Published: 2018-09-27
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A Russian mole has infiltrated the British establishment - and the spymaster Smiley must dig them out... George Smiley, formerly of the Secret Intelligence Service, is contemplating his new life in retirement when he is called back on an unexpected mission. His task is to hunt down an agent implanted by Moscow Central at the very heart of the Circus - one who has been buried deep there for years. The dogged, troubled Smiley can discount nobody from being the traitor, even if it is one of those closest to him.
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The Looking Glass War
ISBN-10: 0340994363 · ISBN-13: 9780340994368
Published: 2009-05-14
The Department has faded since the war, effectively mothballed, without agents or resources. But now, with intelligence of a possible missile threat, it again has a mission. This is a chance to prove its influence to those at the Circus, like George Smiley, who think the Department's time has passed. The opportunity to reclaim former glory cannot be missed - even though it means putting men's lives at desperate risk on foreign soil. The Looking Glass War is a gripping story of the amorality of espionage - unflinching in its depiction of the men involved, who are as much full of vanity and fear as of selflessness and courage.
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
ISBN-10: 0743442539 · ISBN-13: 9780743442534
Published: 2001-11-27
Featuring an Introduction by the author, the crowning Cold War masterwork is once again available in a collector's trade edition.
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A Murder of Quality
ISBN-10: 0141196378 · ISBN-13: 9780141196374
Published: 2011-05-26
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. As Smiley probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carré moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective.
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Call for the Dead
ISBN-10: 0141972246 · ISBN-13: 9780141972244
Published: 2011-11-03
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph An apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man... Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign Office civil servant, Samuel Fennan, has killed himself, and Smiley realizes that Intelligence head Maston is going to set him up to take the blame. Beginning his own investigation, Smiley is shocked to receive an urgent letter from the dead man, and slowly uncovers a network of deceit and betrayal. Le Carré's debut novel was also the first of his many books to feature the tenacious, unassuming and singular George Smiley.
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Mr Phillips
ISBN-10: 0571268080 · ISBN-13: 9780571268085
Published: 2012-02-02
One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. It is, as Mr Phillips comes to realise, the first day of the rest of his life - whether he wants it to be or not. All this is both better and worse than being at work. So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind his desk calculating the financial consequences of redundancies or recommending the savings to be made from more responsible use of yellow sticky note pads?
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Fragrant Harbour
ISBN-10: 0571268099 · ISBN-13: 9780571268092
Published: 2012-02-02
Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before it is hit by the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England; their friendship spans decades and changes both their lives. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth, and who is now facing his own difficulties, and opportunities, in the twenty-first century. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong into a laboratory of capitalism at its most cut-throat; the growth of the Triads; the handover of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the world's great cities.
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Garth Ennis' The Boys
ISBN-10: 1509445366 · ISBN-13: 9781509445363
Published: 2017
"The comic book series everyone is talking about!! From Eisner Award winning writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson (TRANSMETROPOLITAN)! Don't miss this dark, twisted look at superpowers, super - people, and the men and women who make sure the world's "heroes" never go too far. Featuring an introduction from writer, actor and producer Simon Pegg, the creator and star of Shaun of the Dead, Spaced and the upcoming Hot Fuzz!"--
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A Room of One's Own
ISBN-10: 146040436X · ISBN-13: 9781460404362
Published: 2001-11-27
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and entertaining book, it was based on papers delivered at Newnham and Girton Colleges—the two women's colleges at Cambridge University. Never losing sight of her undergraduate audience, Woolf provides a brief history of women's writing in English, a scathing account of the subtle and not so subtle ways in which women have been discouraged from writing, and a recommendation for how to change matters: "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." In the process, Woolf takes on women's economic disadvantages, the underfunding of women's education, the discouragement of women from certain kinds of (lucrative) work, the ways in which women are socialized into suspicion of each other, and how women participate in their own systemic oppression. Yet, in spite of these weighty subjects, A Room of One's Own remains throughout funny, light-hearted, engaging for the novice reader while still offering "nuggets" to the worldy-wise. It is, above and beyond all else, a very model of essay writing. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.
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Orlando
ISBN-10: 0192834738 · ISBN-13: 9780192834737
Published: 1998
This biography is Woolf's most light-hearted novel and appears here with the original illustrations. Cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando begins life as a young noble in the 16th century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s.
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
ISBN-10: ="0141182342" · ISBN-13: ="9780141182346"
Published: 2024-02-20
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: The CALL of CTHULHU The Thing on the Doorstep Pickman's Model Herbert west-reanimator Dagon The Dreams in the Witch House The Dunwich Horror The Cats of Ulthar A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror. "I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King. Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.
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The Coral Bones
ISBN-10: 1529436427 · ISBN-13: 9781529436426
Published: 2023-10-01
Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association award for best novel, and the Kitschies Red Tentacle Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to fight for a future in a world where so much has already been lost. Seventeen-year-old Judith Holliman escapes the monotony of Sydney Town during the nineteenth century, when her naval captain father lets her accompany him on a voyage, unaware of the wonders and dangers she will soon encounter. Telma Velasco is hunting for a miracle in a world ravaged by global heating: a leafy seadragon, long believed extinct, has been sighted. But as Telma investigates, she finds hope in unexpected places. Past, present and future collide in this powerful elegy to a disappearing world - and vision of a more hopeful future.
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The Beauty
ISBN-10: 1837862060 · ISBN-13: 9781837862061
Published: 2024-08-29
Nominated for the Shirley Jackson and Saboteur awards. The tenth anniversary edition of the critically acclaimed short novel, with an introduction by M. R. Carey. Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of the Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women. They are the last generation. One evening, Nate brings back new secrets from the woods; peculiar mushrooms are growing from the ground where the women’s bodies lie buried. These are the first signs of a strange and insidious presence unlike anything ever known before… Discover the Beauty. Also includes the novella The Arrival of Missives.
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Raising Steam
ISBN-10: 0857522272 · ISBN-13: 9780857522276
Published: 2013
Itâe(tm)s all change for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, conman, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention, driven by Dick Simnel, the man with tâe(tm)flat cap and tâe(tm)sliding rule, is drawing astonished crowds - including a few particularly keen young men armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear âe" and suddenly itâe(tm)s a matter of national importance that the trains run on time. Moist does not enjoy hard work. His . . .vital input at the bank and post office consists mainly of words, which are not that heavy. Or greasy. And it certainly doesnâe(tm)t involve rickety bridges, runaway cheeses or a fat controller with knuckledusters. What he does enjoy is being alive, which may not be a perk of running the new railway. Because, of course, some people have OBJECTIONS, and theyâe(tm)ll go to extremes to stop locomotion in its tracks.
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Snuff
ISBN-10: 0552163368 · ISBN-13: 9780552163361
Published: 2012-07-23
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Unseen Academicals
ISBN-10: 0385609345 · ISBN-13: 9780385609340
Published: 2009
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
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Making Money
ISBN-10: 0385611013 · ISBN-13: 9780385611015
Published: 2007
Fantasy-roman.
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Thud!
ISBN-10: 055216769X · ISBN-13: 9780552167697
Published: 2014-02-13
'Some people would be asking: whose side are you on? If you're not for us, you're against us. Huh. If you're not an apple, you're a banana' Koom Valley, the ancient battle where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh . . . and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do.
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Going Postal
ISBN-10: 0552149438 · ISBN-13: 9780552149433
Published: 2005-09-26
The newest entry in Pratchett's internationally bestselling series is a splendid send-up of government, the postal system, and everything that lies in between.
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Braised Pork
ISBN-10: 1473573076 · ISBN-13: 9781473573079
Published: 2020-01-09
The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars. One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the bathtub of their Beijing apartment. Next to him is a piece of folded paper, a sketch of a strange creature from his dream. He has left her no other sign. Young, alone, and with many unanswered questions, Jia Jia sets out on a journey. It takes her deep into her past where, for the very first time, she begins to have a sense of her future. 'Startlingly original... A portrait of alienated young womanhood as it is set free' Guardian 'Rich and wild...it gets under your skin' Observer 'An Yu writes with style and in a way that is hard to resist' Sunday Times 'A seductive, sharply observed tale of love, loss and hope' Daily Mail
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Monstrous Regiment
ISBN-10: 0552149411 · ISBN-13: 9780552149419
Published: 2004-08-31
It was a sudden strange fancy, and now Polly Perks, in her brother's clothes and her hair cut off, has joined up to fight for her country. But who is the enemy? What is she really fighting for? War teaches you a lot, she finds, when it turns out that you joined the Monstrous Regiment.
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Night Watch
ISBN-10: 0552167665 · ISBN-13: 9780552167666
Published: 2014-03-27
Sixth book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch 'The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Until next time.' SFX The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . 'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.' For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. For Commander Sam Vimes, it all feels horribly familiar. Caught on the roof of a very magical building during a storm, he's found himself back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in the past is hard, especially when your time travel companion is a serial killer who knows where you live. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion. The problem is: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future...
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The Inugami Curse
ISBN-10: 1782275029 · ISBN-13: 9781782275022
Published: 2020-02-06
A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and hidden identities to find the murderer, and lift the curse wreaking its bloody revenge on the Inugamis. The Inugami Curse is a fiendish, intricately plotted classic mystery from a giant of Japanese crime writing, starring the legendary detective Kosuke Kindaichi. Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. He was born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, many of which were adapted for stage and television in Japan. The Inugami Curse is one of Kindaichi's most famous mysteries and has twicce been adapted for film in Japan.
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The Honjin Murders
ISBN-10: 1782275010 · ISBN-13: 9781782275015
Published: 2019-12-05
Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music - death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house. The murder seems impossible, but amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi is determined to get to the bottom of it. Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. He was born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, many of which were adapted for stage and television in Japan. The Honjin Murders is the first Kosuke Kindaichi story, and regarded as one of Japan's great mystery novels. It won the first Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1948 but has never been translated into English, until now.
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Value
ISBN-10: 1472134893 · ISBN-13: 9781472134899
Published: 2021-03-11
Since the industrial revolution, when everything ran by clockwork, people have understood how important it is to live in the moment. But over time our world has grown increasingly busy, and we've lost our ability to truly savour each unique experience and the simple pleasures the world has to offer. Cultural commentator and critic Stephen Bayley seeks to explain what real value is: it's about taking the time and making the effort to appreciate things, of understanding the permanent charm of modest daily rituals performed with care and feeling. Of caring about appearances and meaning. Of being bold in matters of taste. Of fully understanding the source of lasting pleasure. Of making every encounter with an object or person meaningful. Value is an elegiac account of what's recently been lost in the digital apocalypse. But also an enthusiastic anticipation of what we can regain in a post-viral, more analogue and more thoughtful world.
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Moving Pictures
ISBN-10: 0552166677 · ISBN-13: 9780552166676
Published: 2012-11-05
A zany bunch of futuristic actors -- Victor, the eternal student; Ginger, the milkmaid; Dibbler, the sausage salesman; and Gaspode, the talking dog -- embarks on an epic movie project.
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Reaper Man
ISBN-10: 0552134643 · ISBN-13: 9780552134644
Published: 1998-12-23
In the eleventh Discworld novel, Death is missing – presumed . . . er . . . gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There’s a harvest to be gathered in.
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The Moon and Sixpence
ISBN-10: 1974057658 · ISBN-13: 9781974057658
Published: 2017-07-31
The Moon and Sixpence By Somerset Maugham, W.
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Full Dark House
ISBN-10: 0553815520 · ISBN-13: 9780553815528
Published: 2004
When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit and claims the life of Arthur Bryant, his partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity. Before long he is on the trail through Blitz-ravaged London and the gothic world of the theatre.
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I Who Have Never Known Men
ISBN-10: 1888363436 · ISBN-13: 9781888363432
Published: 1997-04-08
A work of fantasy, I Who Have Never Known Men is the haunting and unforgettable account of a near future on a barren earth where women are kept in underground cages guarded by uniformed groups of men. It is narrated by the youngest of the women, the only one with no memory of what the world was like before the cages, who must teach herself, without books or sexual contact, the essential human emotions of longing, loving, learning, companionship, and dying. Part thriller, part mystery, I Who Have Never Known Men shows us the power of one person without memories to reinvent herself piece by piece, emotion by emotion, in the process teaching us much about what it means to be human.
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Thief of Time
ISBN-10: 0552148407 · ISBN-13: 9780552148405
Published: 2002-04-23
Discworld's first newspaper editor just wants to get at the truth but unfortunately, like other editors before and after him, many people want him dead for a variety of reasons.
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The Truth
ISBN-10: 0552167630 · ISBN-13: 9780552167635
Published: 2013-10-10
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. New printing technology means that words just won't obediently stay nailed down like usual. There's a very real threat of news getting out there. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...
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Aesthetics
ISBN-10: 0198826613 · ISBN-13: 9780198826613
Published: 2019
Bence Nanay introduces aesthetics, a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. Looking beyond traditional artistic experiences, he defends the topic from accusations of elitism, and shows how more everyday experiences such as the pleasure in a soft fabric or falling leaves can become the subject of aesthetics.
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Stone Blind
ISBN-10: 1529061520 · ISBN-13: 9781529061529
Published: 2022-09-15
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 X (Twitter) ‘So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters’ Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her Gorgon sisters, she begins to realize that she is the only one who experiences change, the only one who can be hurt. When Poseidon commits an unforgiveable act against Medusa in the temple of Athene, the goddess takes her revenge where she can: on his victim. Medusa is changed forever – writhing snakes for hair and her gaze now turns any living creature to stone. She can look at nothing without destroying it. Desperate to protect her beloved sisters, Medusa condemns herself to a life of shadows. Until Perseus embarks upon a quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . . ‘A fierce feminist exploration of female rage, written with wit and empathy’ – Glamour
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The Art of Fermentation
ISBN-10: 160358286X · ISBN-13: 9781603582865
Published: 2012-05-14
Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners.
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Rivers of London
ISBN-10: 0575097590 · ISBN-13: 9780575097599
Published: 2011-01-10
Book 1 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch. My name is Peter Grant, and I used to be a probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service, and to everyone else as the Filth. My story really begins when I tried to take a witness statement from a man who was already dead... Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. After taking a statement from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost, Peter comes to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Suddenly, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic. Praise for the Rivers of London novels: 'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London' NICK FROST 'As brilliant and funny as ever' THE SUN 'Charming, witty, exciting' THE INDEPENDENT 'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups' THE TIMES Discover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams - don't panic - you will love Ben Aaronovitch's imaginative, irreverent and all-round irresistible novels.
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Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
ISBN-10: 1039056954 · ISBN-13: 9781039056954
Published: 2024-09-17
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NOW IN A DELUXE HARDCOVER EDITION • The timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction Printed on exquisite deckle-edged paper, this edition features a stunning full-wrap jacket with luxurious soft-touch finish, a vivid neon-printed case, and full-color endpapers, as well as a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium, 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate in the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon. With a stunning, unmissable new design, this Knopf Canada exclusive 20th anniversary hardcover edition is the perfect gift for fans.
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Babel
ISBN-10: 0008501858 · ISBN-13: 9780008501853
Published: 2023-08
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER 'One for Philip Pullman fans' THE TIMES 'This one is an automatic buy' GLAMOUR 'Ambitious, sweeping and epic' EVENING STANDARD 'Razor-sharp' DAILY MAIL 'An ingenious fantasy about empire' GUARDIAN Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift. Until it became a prison... But can a student stand against an empire? An incendiary new novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance. 'A masterpiece that resonates with power and knowledge. BABEL is a stark picture of the cruelty of empire, a distillation of dark academia, and a riveting blend of fantasy and historical fiction - a monumental achievement' Samantha Shannon, author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE R.F. Kuang's book 'Babel' was a New York Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2022.
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Attrib. and Other Stories
ISBN-10: 0593312368 · ISBN-13: 9780593312360
Published: 2021-05-18
"It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." --Max Porter A dazzling, prizewinning short story collection that showcases a bold new talent Eley Williams has been a literary sensation ever since this collection of experimental short fiction was published in the UK. Lauded as "elegant" (The Guardian) and "exhilarating" (Vanity Fair), Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was named a best book of the year by The Guardian. Attrib. presents a cast of unforgettable characters standing at the precipice of emotional events (a disastrous breakup, a successful date, an unexpected arrival) and finding it fiendishly impossible to express themselves. With intimate, irreverent, and playful prose, Eley Williams rejoices in both the possibilities and limitations of language, as well as the very human need to be known and understood--despite our own best efforts. Original and inventive in the vein of Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, and Amy Hempel, these stories are "emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective" (New Statesman) and "an absolute must-read" (The London Magazine).
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Boy Parts
ISBN-10: 1910312630 · ISBN-13: 9781910312636
Published: 2020-07-02
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best-friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention.
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The Ministry of Time
ISBN-10: 1668045168 · ISBN-13: 9781668045169
Published: 2024-05-07
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL • WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, VOX, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE INDEPENDENT, PARADE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND MORE… “This summer’s hottest debut.” —Cosmopolitan • “Witty, sexy escapist fiction [that] packs a substantial punch...Fresh and thrilling.” —Los Angeles Times • “Electric...I loved every second.” —Emily Henry “Utterly winning...Imagine if The Time Traveler’s Wife had an affair with A Gentleman in Moscow...Readers, I envy you: There’s a smart, witty novel in your future.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley. In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts. Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future. An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house? Kaliane Bradley’s answer is a blazing, unforgettable testament to what we owe each other in a changing world.
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Reservoir 13
ISBN-10: 1936787709 · ISBN-13: 9781936787708
Published: 2017-10-03
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A “fiercely intelligent . . . daring, and very moving” about an English village haunted by one family’s loss—for readers of The Virgin Suicides and Zadie Smith’s NW (George Saunders, The Paris Review Daily). Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths; secrets kept and exposed; livelihoods made and lost; small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside. “Jon McGregor has revolutionized that most hallowed of mystery plots: the one where some foul deed takes place in a tranquil English village that . . . doesn’t feel so tranquil anymore.” —The Wall Street Journal
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In Praise of Paths
ISBN-10: 1771644966 · ISBN-13: 9781771644969
Published: 2020-05-05
“What [Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk one’s way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest... A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost.”—The New York Times Book Review An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and rediscovered the joys of traveling by foot. Torbjørn Ekelund started to walk—everywhere—after an epilepsy diagnosis affected his ability to drive. The more he ventured out, the more he came to love the act of walking, and an interest in paths emerged. In this poignant, meandering book, Ekelund interweaves the literature and history of paths with his own stories from the trail. As he walks with shoes on and barefoot, through forest creeks and across urban streets, he contemplates the early tracks made by ancient snails and traces the wanderings of Romantic poets, amongst other musings. If we still “understand ourselves in relation to the landscape,” Ekelund asks, then what do we lose in an era of car travel and navigation apps? And what will we gain from taking to paths once again? “A charming read, celebrating the relationship between humans and their bodies, their landscapes, and one another.” —The Washington Post This book was made possible in part thanks to generous support from NORLA.
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The Ballad of a Small Player
ISBN-10: 1448189713 · ISBN-13: 9781448189717
Published: 2014-04-03
SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING COLIN FARELL AND TILDA SWINTON ‘I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.’ His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game: baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.' Though Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to send the money – and himself – up in smoke. So begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot: a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another naughty lemonade and an endless loop of small wins and losses. When Lady Luck arrives in the form of Dao-Ming, a beautiful yet enigmatic lost soul, so begins a spectacular and unnatural winning streak in which millions come Doyle’s way. But in these shadowy dens of risk and compulsion, in a land governed by superstition, Doyle knows that when the bets are high, the stakes are even greater. The Ballad of a Small Player is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortune’s fickle hand.
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The Manningtree Witches
ISBN-10: 164622065X · ISBN-13: 9781646220656
Published: 2021-08-10
Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves. "This is an intimate portrait of a clever if unworldly heroine who slides from amused observation of the 'moribund carnival atmosphere' in the household of a 'possessed' child to nervous uncertainty about the part in the proceedings played by her adored tutor to utter despair as a wagon carts her off to prison." —Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices. Rebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the handsome young clerk John Edes. But then a newcomer, who identifies himself as the Witchfinder General, arrives. A mysterious, pious figure dressed from head to toe in black, Matthew Hopkins takes over the Thorn Inn and begins to ask questions about what the women on the margins of this diminished community are up to. Dangerous rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants have begun to hang over women like Rebecca—and the future is as frightening as it is thrilling. Brimming with contemporary energy and resonance, The Manningtree Witches plunges its readers into the fever and menace of the English witch trials, where suspicion, mistrust, and betrayal run amok as a nation's arrogant male institutions start to realize that the very people they've suppressed for so long may be about to rise up and claim their freedom.
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Reality, and Other Stories
ISBN-10: 0571363024 · ISBN-13: 9780571363025
Published: 2020-09-29
Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Constant cold calls from unknown numbers. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.
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Free
ISBN-10: 0141995114 · ISBN-13: 9780141995113
Published: 2021-10-28
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books 'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime' Luke Harding, Observer 'We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right' Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. There was community and hope. Then, in December 1990, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. As one generation's aspirations became another's disillusionment, and as her own family's secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what freedom really meant. Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history. THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, DAILY MAIL, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR
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Soul Music
ISBN-10: 0552140295 · ISBN-13: 9780552140294
Published: 1995-09
Fantasy.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
ISBN-10: 1596910534 · ISBN-13: 9781596910539
Published: 2005-09
The entrancing international bestseller and TIME( #1 Book of the Year comes to paperback. Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Clarke's magisterial novel--the story of the rise of two very different magicians--weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of 19th-century England.
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Men at Arms
ISBN-10: 0552167533 · ISBN-13: 9780552167536
Published: 2013-02-14
'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.' The City Watch needs MEN! But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get, because someone in Ankh-Morpork has been getting dangerous ideas - about crowns and legendary swords, and destiny. And the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the big job, like saving the world...
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Big Sleep
ISBN-10: 4488131018 · ISBN-13: 9784488131012
Published: 1939
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Small Gods
ISBN-10: 0552167517 · ISBN-13: 9780552167512
Published: 2013-03-04
'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: 'Hey, you!' This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial business. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods, of every shape and size, and all elbowing for space at the top. In such a competitive environment, shape and size can be pretty crucial to make one's presence felt. So it's certainly not helpful to be reduced to appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone's book. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast: for the Great God Om, Brutha the novice is the Chosen One - or at least the only One available. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...
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Witches Abroad
ISBN-10: 0552167509 · ISBN-13: 9780552167505
Published: 2013-03-04
It seemed an easy job. After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to Genua, things are never that simple.
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Hangover Square
ISBN-10: 0141956402 · ISBN-13: 9780141956404
Published: 2001-06-28
London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.
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The Day of the Jackal
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Published: 1979
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Blade Runner 2029: The Complete Series Omnibus
ISBN-10: 1787749711 · ISBN-13: 9781787749719
Published: 2025-10-07
Los Angeles, 2029 Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina is back with the LAPD BLADE RUNNER UNIT hunting for renegade Replicants. But this time she’s out to save as many as she can. Changed by her experiences, Ash is no longer the same cold, cynical killing machine as she was in 2019. Now she has a new mission that, if discovered, will make her the enemy of humanity. When Ash is confronted by an old adversary, one she believed long dead, she is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a Replicant unlike any she has ever faced before – a Replicant with no fear of death and with a dream to finish off what the Blackout started in 2022… The end of mankind. Collects all 12 issues of Blade Runner 2019 and the Blade Runner Free Comic Book Day 2021.
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Lords And Ladies
ISBN-10: 1407034871 · ISBN-13: 9781407034874
Published: 2008-12-16
'People didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colourful, if you liked the colour of blood . . .' On Midsummer Night, dreams are especially powerful. So powerful, in fact, that they can cause the walls between realities to come crashing down. And some things you really don't want to break through. The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick return home to discover that elves have invaded Lancre. And even in a world of wizards, trolls, dwarfs, Morris dancers - and the odd orangutan - they're spectacularly nasty creatures. The fairies are back - and this time they don't just want your teeth . . . 'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday 'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy' The Sunday Times Lords and Ladies is the fourth book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
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The Partisan
ISBN-10: 1529190827 · ISBN-13: 9781529190823
Published: 2022-06-16
'Remarkedly assured debut ... the advent of a real talent...One to watch' Sunday Times 'Immersive, intriguing, and intelligent - incredibly impressive, up there with the best in the genre' Lee Child ________________________ It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don't know it, but they are about to compete in the deadliest game ever played. Shadowing them is Greta, a ruthless resistance fighter who grew up the hard way in the forests of Lithuania, but who is now hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world. Men who are also on the radar of Vassily, perhaps the Soviet Union's greatest spymaster. A man of cunning and influence, Vassily was Yulia's minder during her visit to the West, but even he could not foresee the consequences of her meeting Michael. When the world is accelerating towards an inevitable and catastrophic conflict, what can just four people do to prevent it? Epic in scope, The Partisan is a thrill ride like no other, taking you from the hallowed halls of Cambridge to the grimy depths of the Moscow underworld, from 1960s London to the Eastern Front in the Second World War.
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The Anomaly
ISBN-10: 0241540496 · ISBN-13: 9780241540497
Published: 2022-01-20
When Air France flight 006 departed from Paris, the route to New York was just as it had always been. The skies were clear. The passengers were safe. Everything was going to plan. Until the event that would change everything. Amidst terrifying turbulence, the plane - somehow - was doubled. For every one person on board that day, there were now two. A double with the same body, the same mind, the same memories. When it's time for the doubles to meet, they must confront their extraordinary fate. And only one thing is certain- life as they know it, will never be the same.
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The Absolute Book
ISBN-10: 140594725X · ISBN-13: 9781405947251
Published: 2021-03-18
DISCOVER THE ENCHANTING EPIC THAT WILL TRANSPORT YOU TO OTHER WORLDS . . . 'AN INSTANT CLASSIC' GUARDIAN 'BEWITCHING' THE TIMES 'MIND-BLOWING' LAINI TAYLOR 'ASTOUNDING' FRANCIS SPUFFORD 'GORGEOUSLY WRITTEN' DEBORAH HARKNESS _______ Taryn Cornick barely remembers the family library. Since her sister was murdered, she's forgotten so much. Now it's all coming back. The fire. The thief. The scroll box. People are asking questions about the library. Questions that might relate to her sister's murder. And something called The Absolute Book. A book in which secrets are written - and which everyone believes only she can find. They insist Taryn be the hunter. But she knows the truth. She is the hunted . . . _______ The Absolute Book is a tale of sisters, ancient blood, a forgotten library, murder, revenge and a book that might just have the answer to everything. 'An instant classic . . . A work to rank alongside other modern masterpieces of fantasy such as Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series or Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Everything fantasy should be: original, magical, well read, compelling' GUARDIAN 'Astonishing. Gripping. Hugely ambitious. An extraordinary conclusion. Admire the sheer scope and grandeur' DAILY MAIL 'A marvellous argument for stories. There are Norse gods, references to Merlin, a tour through purgatory and a strange parallel world where magic is real and humans are bit players in the clash of supernatural realms. Bewitching' THE TIMES 'Contains multitudes, spanning the geographies of Canada, Britain and New Zealand; the cosmologies of fairies, demons and angels; and the genres of thriller, domestic realism and epic fantasy . . . I'm in awe of it' NEW YORK TIMES Review of Books 'Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE ABSOLUTE BOOK has something for everyone . . . Here is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful' DEBORAH HARKNESS, author of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 'Fantastical' THE TIMES 'Savour and absorb the world Knox conjures' SUNDAY TIMES 'Gorgeous. The payoffs and reveals are mind-blowing' LAINI TAYLOR, author of DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE 'An angelic book, an apocalyptic book, an astounding book' FRANCIS SPUFFORD
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Foreign Bodies
ISBN-10: ="0712356991" · ISBN-13: ="9780712356992"
Published: 2017
Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue-but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally rare, and several have been translated for the first time to appear in this volume.
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Sea of Poppies
ISBN-10: 1429930810 · ISBN-13: 9781429930819
Published: 2009-09-29
The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).
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A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
ISBN-10: ="006337529X" · ISBN-13: ="9780063375291"
Published: 2025
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Fair: The Life-Art of Translation
ISBN-10: 1913513734 · ISBN-13: 9781913513733
Published: 2025-05-29
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Lincoln in the Bardo
ISBN-10: ="0812995341" · ISBN-13: ="9780812995343"
Published: 2017
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH'A masterpiece' Zadie Smith'Extraordinary' Daily Mail'Breathtaking' Observer'A tour de force' The Sunday TimesThe extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil WarThe American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body.From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?
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Money to Burn
ISBN-10: 1529934516 · ISBN-13: 9781529934519
Published: 2025-02-06
In the aftermath of a national disaster, a couple look back on their marriage and what it cost them in this groundbreaking novel about capitalism’s effect on the human heart *Guardian best translated fiction of 2025* 'Buzzes with electricity... intriguing, maddening, exciting. I’m in’ Observer 'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' Guardian Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together. Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong. How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape? 'Taut and intelligent... a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society' Literary Review ‘A comet in Scandinavian literature’ OLGA RAVN ‘Startling and irresistible’ CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT 'Unusual, fascinating, and complicated in the best way' CLAIRE FULLER 'Nordenhof's writing is electrifying' CHETNA MAROO
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
ISBN-10: ="1585421464" · ISBN-13: ="9781585421466"
Published: 2002
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Private Citizens
ISBN-10: ="0062399101" · ISBN-13: ="9780062399106"
Published: 2016
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Strange Pictures
ISBN-10: ="0063433087" · ISBN-13: ="9780063433083"
Published: 2025
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All That Man Is
ISBN-10: ="0224099779" · ISBN-13: ="9780224099776"
Published: 2016
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Loren Ipsum
ISBN-10: ="1068335173" · ISBN-13: ="9781068335174"
Published: 2025
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Black Flame
ISBN-10: ="1250348013" · ISBN-13: ="9781250348012"
Published: 2025
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All That We See or Seem (Julia Z, #1)
ISBN-10: ="1668083175" · ISBN-13: ="9781668083178"
Published: 2025
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Ficciones
ISBN-10: ="0802130305" · ISBN-13: ="9780802130303"
Published: 1994
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
ISBN-10: ="0525659161" · ISBN-13: ="9780525659167"
Published: 2023
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
ISBN-10: ="1783961414" · ISBN-13: ="9781783961412"
Published: 2015
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The History Man
ISBN-10: ="0099149109" · ISBN-13: ="9780099149101"
Published: 1984
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Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0140170987" · ISBN-13: ="9780140170986"
Published: 1979
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The Liar's Dictionary
ISBN-10: ="0385546777" · ISBN-13: ="9780385546775"
Published: 2021
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Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
ISBN-10: ="0008618941" · ISBN-13: ="9780008618940"
Published: 2024
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How to Write About Africa: Collected Works
ISBN-10: ="0812989651" · ISBN-13: ="9780812989656"
Published: 2023
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TonyInterruptor
ISBN-10: ="1803512547" · ISBN-13: ="9781803512549"
Published: 2025
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In the Approaches
ISBN-10: ="0007583702" · ISBN-13: ="9780007583706"
Published: 2014
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The Yips
ISBN-10: ="0007476655" · ISBN-13: ="9780007476657"
Published: 2012
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Wide Open (Thames Gateway, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0060933755" · ISBN-13: ="9780060933753"
Published: 2001
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The Safekeep
ISBN-10: ="1668034344" · ISBN-13: ="9781668034347"
Published: 2024
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Written on the Body
ISBN-10: ="0679744479" · ISBN-13: ="9780679744474"
Published: 1994
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Havoc
ISBN-10: ="1529434475" · ISBN-13: ="9781529434477"
Published: 2025
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Autocorrect: Stories
ISBN-10: ="0593717236" · ISBN-13: ="9780593717233"
Published: 2025
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Saraswati
ISBN-10: ="1782839216" · ISBN-13: ="9781782839217"
Published: 2025
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We Move
ISBN-10: ="1788169468" · ISBN-13: ="9781788169462"
Published: 2022
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Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere
ISBN-10: ="1786499800" · ISBN-13: ="9781786499806"
Published: 2025
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Lessons for Young Artists
ISBN-10: ="1802065695" · ISBN-13: ="9781802065695"
Published: 2025
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Endling
ISBN-10: ="0385545312" · ISBN-13: ="9780385545310"
Published: 2025
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Can You Solve the Murder?
ISBN-10: ="014313888X" · ISBN-13: ="9780143138884"
Published: 2025
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A Schooling in Murder
ISBN-10: ="0008494231" · ISBN-13: ="9780008494230"
Published: 2025
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Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
ISBN-10: ="1802063323" · ISBN-13: ="9781802063325"
Published: 2025
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The Möbius Book
ISBN-10: ="0374615403" · ISBN-13: ="9780374615406"
Published: 2025
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Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
ISBN-10: ="0300267541" · ISBN-13: ="9780300267549"
Published: 2024
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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
ISBN-10: ="1916751164" · ISBN-13: ="9781916751163"
Published: 2025
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Gunk
ISBN-10: ="1526621819" · ISBN-13: ="9781526621818"
Published: 2025
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The Names
ISBN-10: ="0593833902" · ISBN-13: ="9780593833902"
Published: 2025
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The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge
ISBN-10: ="0253204682" · ISBN-13: ="9780253204684"
Published: 1988
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Open, Heaven
ISBN-10: ="0593802845" · ISBN-13: ="9780593802847"
Published: 2025
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Send Nudes
ISBN-10: ="1526648989" · ISBN-13: ="9781526648983"
Published: 2022
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On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
ISBN-10: ="1643753088" · ISBN-13: ="9781643753089"
Published: 2025
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Paradise Logic
ISBN-10: ="1668057034" · ISBN-13: ="9781668057032"
Published: 2025
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Mother
ISBN-10: ="1406833266" · ISBN-13: ="9781406833263"
Published: 2006
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The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)
ISBN-10: ="1609452860" · ISBN-13: ="9781609452865"
Published: 2015
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2014
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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2013
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Death and Other Occupational Hazards
ISBN-10: ="1529936152" · ISBN-13: ="9781529936155"
Published: 2025
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Fair Play
ISBN-10: ="0063360551" · ISBN-13: ="9780063360556"
Published: 2025
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All Fours
ISBN-10: ="0593190262" · ISBN-13: ="9780593190265"
Published: 2024
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The Book Forger: The True Story of a Literary Crime that Fooled the World
ISBN-10: ="1784744670" · ISBN-13: ="9781784744670"
Published: 2024
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Hunchback
ISBN-10: ="0593734718" · ISBN-13: ="9780593734711"
Published: 2025
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Flesh
ISBN-10: ="198212279X" · ISBN-13: ="9781982122799"
Published: 2025
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Alive: An Alternative Anatomy
ISBN-10: ="1529926742" · ISBN-13: ="9781529926743"
Published: 2025
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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
ISBN-10: ="0778368459" · ISBN-13: ="9780778368458"
Published: 2025
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Beautiful Animals
ISBN-10: ="0553447378" · ISBN-13: ="9780553447378"
Published: 2017
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Perspective(s)
ISBN-10: ="2246829356" · ISBN-13: ="9782246829355"
Published: 2023
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Munich
ISBN-10: ="1473519691" · ISBN-13: ="9781473519695"
Published: 2017
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
ISBN-10: ="0385534264" · ISBN-13: ="9780385534260"
Published: 2023
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Second Best
ISBN-10: ="1913547590" · ISBN-13: ="9781913547592"
Published: 2023
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Rejection
ISBN-10: ="0063337878" · ISBN-13: ="9780063337879"
Published: 2024
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A Sabbatical In Leipzig
ISBN-10: ="1843517760" · ISBN-13: ="9781843517764"
Published: 2021
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Love Notes from a German Building Site
ISBN-10: ="184351754X" · ISBN-13: ="9781843517542"
Published: 2019
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Quarterlife
ISBN-10: ="1324095490" · ISBN-13: ="9781324095491"
Published: 2024
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
ISBN-10: ="0804136637" · ISBN-13: ="9780804136631"
Published: 2014
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2021
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Disappoint Me
ISBN-10: ="0593977874" · ISBN-13: ="9780593977873"
Published: 2025
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The Peacock and the Sparrow
ISBN-10: ="1982194545" · ISBN-13: ="9781982194543"
Published: 2023
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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now, As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor (2011-11-03)
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 1878
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She's Always Hungry
ISBN-10: ="0063393263" · ISBN-13: ="9780063393264"
Published: 2024
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Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book (Clarendon Lectures in English)
ISBN-10: ="0192847317" · ISBN-13: ="9780192847317"
Published: 2022
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The Wilding
ISBN-10: ="139961147X" · ISBN-13: ="9781399611473"
Published: 2024
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William
ISBN-10: ="0593719603" · ISBN-13: ="9780593719602"
Published: 2024
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The Watermark
ISBN-10: ="1783789654" · ISBN-13: ="9781783789658"
Published: 2024
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The Proof of My Innocence
ISBN-10: ="1405962429" · ISBN-13: ="9781405962421"
Published: 2024
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Gabriel's moon
ISBN-10: ="0241542073" · ISBN-13: ="9780241542071"
Published: 2024
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Guilty by Definition
ISBN-10: ="1804183962" · ISBN-13: ="9781804183960"
Published: 2024
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The Life Impossible
ISBN-10: ="0593489276" · ISBN-13: ="9780593489277"
Published: 2024
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The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
ISBN-10: ="1408717905" · ISBN-13: ="9781408717905"
Published: 2024
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The Exile
ISBN-10: ="1529190835" · ISBN-13: ="9781529190830"
Published: 2024
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All the Colours of the Dark
ISBN-10: ="1398707686" · ISBN-13: ="9781398707689"
Published: 2024
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Autocracy, Inc.
ISBN-10: ="0241627893" · ISBN-13: ="9780241627891"
Published: 2024
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There Is No Antimemetics Division
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2020
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0449912558" · ISBN-13: ="9780449912553"
Published: 1997
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Unimpressed
ISBN-10: ="1683964691" · ISBN-13: ="9781683964698"
Published: 2021
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Memory of Water
ISBN-10: ="0062326155" · ISBN-13: ="9780062326157"
Published: 2014
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Strange Magic (Essex Witch Museum Mystery, #1)
ISBN-10: ="1786070987" · ISBN-13: ="9781786070982"
Published: 2017
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The Innocents (Variety Palace Mysteries, #2)
ISBN-10: ="1913547523" · ISBN-13: ="9781913547523"
Published: 2024
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The Spy (Kamil Rahman, #4)
ISBN-10: ="1787304027" · ISBN-13: ="9781787304024"
Published: 2024
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Published: 1982
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The Sleepwalkers
ISBN-10: ="1668032988" · ISBN-13: ="9781668032985"
Published: 2024
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
ISBN-10: ="0679723056" · ISBN-13: ="9780679723059"
Published: 1989
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The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
ISBN-10: ="0141999446" · ISBN-13: ="9780141999449"
Published: 2023
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Caledonian Road
ISBN-10: ="1324074876" · ISBN-13: ="9781324074878"
Published: 2024
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Cursed Bunny
ISBN-10: ="1916277187" · ISBN-13: ="9781916277182"
Published: 2021
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Practice
ISBN-10: ="037461301X" · ISBN-13: ="9780374613013"
Published: 2024
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Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
ISBN-10: ="152904037X" · ISBN-13: ="9781529040371"
Published: 2024
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The Monkey King
ISBN-10: ="0952419378" · ISBN-13: ="9780952419372"
Published: 2000
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Diamond Hill
ISBN-10: ="1642860859" · ISBN-13: ="9781642860856"
Published: 2021
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Falling Leaves
ISBN-10: ="0767903579" · ISBN-13: ="9780767903578"
Published: 1999
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This Is Not America
ISBN-10: ="1838956220" · ISBN-13: ="9781838956226"
Published: 2023
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Kowloon Tong
ISBN-10: ="0395901413" · ISBN-13: ="9780395901410"
Published: 1998
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Exciting Times
ISBN-10: ="0062968742" · ISBN-13: ="9780062968746"
Published: 2020
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In Search of London
ISBN-10: ="0306811324" · ISBN-13: ="9780306811326"
Published: 2002
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Nairn's London
ISBN-10: ="1585790443" · ISBN-13: ="9781585790449"
Published: 2002
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Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night
ISBN-10: ="1844671623" · ISBN-13: ="9781844671625"
Published: 2007
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Golden Age
ISBN-10: ="1662601212" · ISBN-13: ="9781662601217"
Published: 2022
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A Spy Alone
ISBN-10: ="1804364797" · ISBN-13: ="9781804364796"
Published: 2023
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Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
ISBN-10: ="1408897415" · ISBN-13: ="9781408897416"
Published: 2023
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Rooftoppers
ISBN-10: ="0571280595" · ISBN-13: ="9780571280599"
Published: 2013
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Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
ISBN-10: ="1839768363" · ISBN-13: ="9781839768361"
Published: 2023
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The Maniac
ISBN-10: ="0593654471" · ISBN-13: ="9780593654477"
Published: 2023
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Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
ISBN-10: ="1635574730" · ISBN-13: ="9781635574739"
Published: 2023
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The Lowlife
ISBN-10: ="1860468292" · ISBN-13: ="9781860468292"
Published: 2005
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King Dido
ISBN-10: ="1905512813" · ISBN-13: ="9781905512812"
Published: 2009
None
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Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition
ISBN-10: ="0691237867" · ISBN-13: ="9780691237862"
Published: 2023
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The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
ISBN-10: ="0195393732" · ISBN-13: ="9780195393736"
Published: 2011
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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
ISBN-10: ="0674988124" · ISBN-13: ="9780674988125"
Published: 2023
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One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: ="9781541703827"
Published: 2023
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Scarp: In Search of London's Outer Limits
ISBN-10: ="1444723383" · ISBN-13: ="9781444723380"
Published: 2012
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Shutter Island
ISBN-10: ="038073186X" · ISBN-13: ="9780380731862"
Published: 2004
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The Seventh Son
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2023
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
ISBN-10: ="0593593952" · ISBN-13: ="9780593593950"
Published: 2023
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Poor Things
ISBN-10: ="0747562288" · ISBN-13: ="9780747562283"
Published: 2002
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The Warlock Effect
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published:
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The Fraud
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2023
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
ISBN-10: ="1847941389" · ISBN-13: ="9781847941381"
Published: 2017
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Look: How to Pay Attention in a Distracted World
ISBN-10: ="0593542215" · ISBN-13: ="9780593542217"
Published: 2023
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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
ISBN-10: ="1842172603" · ISBN-13: ="9781842172605"
Published: 2019
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English Journey
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 1997
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Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
ISBN-10: ="0857527118" · ISBN-13: ="9780857527110"
Published: 2023
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2010
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Chasing Shadows: A true story of the Mafia, Drugs and Terrorism
ISBN-10: ="0349128642" · ISBN-13: ="9780349128641"
Published: 2023
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The Infinite City: The Political History of Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London
ISBN-10: ="0008325871" · ISBN-13: ="9780008325879"
Published: 2023
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Confronting Leviathan
ISBN-10: ="1788167821" · ISBN-13: ="9781788167826"
Published: 2021
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
ISBN-10: ="1859843816" · ISBN-13: ="9781859843819"
Published: 2002
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The Salt Path
ISBN-10: ="0241349648" · ISBN-13: ="9780241349649"
Published: 2018
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The Centre
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2023
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Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
ISBN-10: ="0241632536" · ISBN-13: ="9780241632536"
Published: 2023
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
ISBN-10: ="198218177X" · ISBN-13: ="9781982181772"
Published: 2022
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Small Things Like These
ISBN-10: ="0802158749" · ISBN-13: ="9780802158741"
Published: 2021
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
ISBN-10: ="0393240258" · ISBN-13: ="9780393240252"
Published: 2022
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In Our Time
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2003
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Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
ISBN-10: ="0241553784" · ISBN-13: ="9780241553787"
Published: 2023
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The Hundreds
ISBN-10: ="1478001836" · ISBN-13: ="9781478001836"
Published: 2019
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Cruel Optimism
ISBN-10: ="0822351110" · ISBN-13: ="9780822351115"
Published: 2011
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Money
ISBN-10: ="0099461889" · ISBN-13: ="9780099461883"
Published: 2005
None
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The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)
ISBN-10: ="0802161944" · ISBN-13: ="9780802161949"
Published: 2023
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Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0061032212" · ISBN-13: ="9780061032219"
Published: 2003
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
ISBN-10: ="1573227951" · ISBN-13: ="9781573227957"
Published: 2000
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The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
ISBN-10: ="0008282021" · ISBN-13: ="9780008282028"
Published: 2022
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Looking Glass Sound
ISBN-10: ="1250860024" · ISBN-13: ="9781250860026"
Published: 2023
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Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0593535367" · ISBN-13: ="9780593535363"
Published: 2023
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More Perfect
ISBN-10: ="1982142839" · ISBN-13: ="9781982142834"
Published: 2023
None
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0345504968" · ISBN-13: ="9780345504968"
Published: 2010
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The Ferryman
ISBN-10: ="052561947X" · ISBN-13: ="9780525619475"
Published: 2023
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Chrysalis
ISBN-10: ="059344695X" · ISBN-13: ="9780593446959"
Published: 2023
None
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The Glutton
ISBN-10: ="1783789190" · ISBN-13: ="9781783789207"
Published: 2023
None
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Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich
ISBN-10: ="1788737970" · ISBN-13: ="9781788737975"
Published: 2020
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Aspects of the Novel
ISBN-10: ="0156091801" · ISBN-13: ="9780156091800"
Published: 1956
None
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The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
ISBN-10: ="0544947584" · ISBN-13: ="9780544947580"
Published: 2021
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Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
ISBN-10: ="1529056225" · ISBN-13: ="9781529056228"
Published: 2022
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The Wife of Bath: A Biography
ISBN-10: ="0691206015" · ISBN-13: ="9780691206011"
Published: 2023
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Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
ISBN-10: ="0593329236" · ISBN-13: ="9780593329238"
Published: 2022
None
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The Death Ship
ISBN-10: ="1556521103" · ISBN-13: ="9781556521102"
Published: 1991
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It Walks by Night (Henri Bencolin #1)
ISBN-10: ="074518698X" · ISBN-13: ="9780745186986"
Published: 1997
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The Burning Court
ISBN-10: ="0930330277" · ISBN-13: ="9780930330279"
Published: 1985
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Hag's Nook (Dr. Gideon Fell, #1)
ISBN-10: ="1568659555" · ISBN-13: ="9781568659558"
Published: 1961
None
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After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe
ISBN-10: ="1421429519" · ISBN-13: ="9781421429519"
Published: 2019
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Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain
ISBN-10: ="1107145996" · ISBN-13: ="9781107145993"
Published: 2023
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Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas
ISBN-10: ="1509543716" · ISBN-13: ="9781509543717"
Published: 2021
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The London Encyclopedia
ISBN-10: ="0333576888" · ISBN-13: ="9780333576885"
Published: 1983
None
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Chlorine
ISBN-10: ="0063257602" · ISBN-13: ="9780063257603"
Published: 2023
None
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The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0008119082" · ISBN-13: ="9780008119089"
Published: 2016
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Berta Isla
ISBN-10: ="8420427365" · ISBN-13: ="9788420427362"
Published: 2017
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Tomás Nevinson
ISBN-10: ="8420454591" · ISBN-13: ="9788420454597"
Published: 2021
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The Water Room (Bryant & May, #2)
ISBN-10: ="0553587161" · ISBN-13: ="9780553587166"
Published: 2006
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Fingersmith
ISBN-10: ="1101057025" · ISBN-13: ="9781101057025"
Published: 2002
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Downriver
ISBN-10: ="0141014857" · ISBN-13: ="9780141014852"
Published: 2004
None
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Bleeding London
ISBN-10: ="0879518863" · ISBN-13: ="9780879518868"
Published: 1998
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0060557818" · ISBN-13: ="9780060557812"
Published: 2003
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London
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2011
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
ISBN-10: ="031204867X" · ISBN-13: ="9780312048679"
Published: 1990
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Becoming a Writer
ISBN-10: ="0874771641" · ISBN-13: ="9780874771640"
Published: 1981
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
ISBN-10: ="0553296345" · ISBN-13: ="9780553296341"
Published: 1992
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Writing 21st Century Fiction: High Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling
ISBN-10: ="1599634007" · ISBN-13: ="9781599634005"
Published: 2012
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The Science of Storytelling
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2019
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
ISBN-10: ="1590303164" · ISBN-13: ="9781590303160"
Published: 2006
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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
ISBN-10: ="1324090758" · ISBN-13: ="9781324090755"
Published: 2023
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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life
ISBN-10: ="0997003405" · ISBN-13: ="9780997003406"
Published: 2016
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Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age
ISBN-10: ="022679153X" · ISBN-13: ="9780226791531"
Published: 2021
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XX
ISBN-10: ="1419750690" · ISBN-13: ="9781419750694"
Published: 2020
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The Black Locomotive
ISBN-10: ="1529074428" · ISBN-13: ="9781529074420"
Published: 2021
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Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2023
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In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility
ISBN-10: ="0674970470" · ISBN-13: ="9780674970472"
Published: 2023
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The Burning Girls
ISBN-10: ="198482502X" · ISBN-13: ="9781984825025"
Published: 2021
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The Chalk Man
ISBN-10: ="1524760986" · ISBN-13: ="9781524760984"
Published: 2018
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The Drift
ISBN-10: ="059335656X" · ISBN-13: ="9780593356562"
Published: 2023
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
ISBN-10: ="1800810407" · ISBN-13: ="9781800810402"
Published: 2023
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The Twyford Code
ISBN-10: ="1788165322" · ISBN-13: ="9781788165327"
Published: 2022
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The Appeal (The Appeal, #1)
ISBN-10: ="1788165292" · ISBN-13: ="9781788165297"
Published: 2021
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Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
ISBN-10: ="1787634116" · ISBN-13: ="9781787634114"
Published: 2022
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The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)
ISBN-10: ="057137493X" · ISBN-13: ="9780571374939"
Published: 2023
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Stay Buried (DI Lockyer, #1)
ISBN-10: ="152942125X" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2022
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Now She is Witch
ISBN-10: ="178730342X" · ISBN-13: ="9781787303423"
Published: 2023
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The Wheel of Doll (The Doll Series, #2)
ISBN-10: ="0316288152" · ISBN-13: ="9780316288156"
Published: 2022
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A Man Named Doll (The Doll Series, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0316703656" · ISBN-13: ="9780316703659"
Published: 2021
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The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
ISBN-10: ="1416544054" · ISBN-13: ="9781416544050"
Published: 2009
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
ISBN-10: ="1594487715" · ISBN-13: ="9781594487712"
Published: 2010
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What Technology Wants
ISBN-10: ="0670022152" · ISBN-13: ="9780670022151"
Published: 2010
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Feral Borough
ISBN-10: ="1908058951" · ISBN-13: ="9781908058959"
Published: 2022
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
ISBN-10: ="0544272994" · ISBN-13: ="9780544272996"
Published: 2014
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
ISBN-10: ="0753558254" · ISBN-13: ="9780753558256"
Published: 2022
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For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
ISBN-10: ="1526647885" · ISBN-13: ="9781526647887"
Published: 2023
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Beyond Enkription (The Burlington Files #1)
ISBN-10: ="1497314186" · ISBN-13: ="9781497314184"
Published: 2014
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Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
ISBN-10: ="178283821X" · ISBN-13: ="9781782838210"
Published: 2020
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
ISBN-10: ="1594205582" · ISBN-13: ="9781594205583"
Published: 2017
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Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
ISBN-10: ="1788163109" · ISBN-13: ="9781788163101"
Published: 2022
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The Listening Service: 101 Journeys Through the Musical Universe
ISBN-10: ="0571342957" · ISBN-13: ="9780571342952"
Published: 2022
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One on One
ISBN-10: ="0007360622" · ISBN-13: ="9780007360628"
Published: 2011
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On Java Road
ISBN-10: ="0593242327" · ISBN-13: ="9780593242322"
Published: 2022
None
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The Pachinko Parlour
ISBN-10: ="1914198166" · ISBN-13: ="9781914198168"
Published: 2022
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Winter in Sokcho
ISBN-10: ="1911547542" · ISBN-13: ="9781911547549"
Published: 2020
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Blue Highways
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 1999
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Einstein's Monsters
ISBN-10: ="0679729968" · ISBN-13: ="9780679729969"
Published: 2011
None
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Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects
ISBN-10: ="1789144523" · ISBN-13: ="9781789144529"
Published: 2021
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Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2022
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Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
ISBN-10: ="1847926215" · ISBN-13: ="9781847926210"
Published: 2023
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Mayflies
ISBN-10: ="0571273688" · ISBN-13: ="9780571273683"
Published: 2020
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Sea State: A Memoir
ISBN-10: ="0063030837" · ISBN-13: ="9780063030831"
Published: 2021
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Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
ISBN-10: ="1922458511" · ISBN-13: ="9781922458513"
Published: 2022
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The Other Face of Terror: Inside Europe's Neo-Nazi Network
ISBN-10: ="0586069356" · ISBN-13: ="9780586069356"
Published: 1988
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
ISBN-10: ="1509549994" · ISBN-13: ="9781509549993"
Published: 2022
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Nightcrawling
ISBN-10: ="0593318935" · ISBN-13: ="9780593318935"
Published: 2022
None
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Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
ISBN-10: ="0199581118" · ISBN-13: ="9780199581115"
Published: 2011
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The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
ISBN-10: ="1526162636" · ISBN-13: ="9781526162632"
Published: 2022
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The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
ISBN-10: ="0140273344" · ISBN-13: ="9780140273342"
Published: 1998
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The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2009
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Growing Green: Animal-Free Organic Techniques
ISBN-10: ="1933392495" · ISBN-13: ="9781933392493"
Published: 2007
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Ferment: Slow Down, Make Food to Last (From Scratch)
ISBN-10: ="1787138356" · ISBN-13: ="9781787138353"
Published: 2022
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Reward System: Stories
ISBN-10: ="0374602425" · ISBN-13: ="9780374602420"
Published: 2022
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God: An Anatomy
ISBN-10: ="0525520457" · ISBN-13: ="9780525520450"
Published: 2022
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How to Read a Poem
ISBN-10: ="1405151412" · ISBN-13: ="9781405151412"
Published: 2006
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
ISBN-10: ="1786484897" · ISBN-13: ="9781786484895"
Published: 2017
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
ISBN-10: ="057133802X" · ISBN-13: ="9780571338023"
Published: 2022
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How to Run a Government: So That Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
ISBN-10: ="0241004977" · ISBN-13: ="9780241004975"
Published: 2015
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The Lamplighters
ISBN-10: ="1984882171" · ISBN-13: ="9781984882172"
Published: 2022
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Cold Enough for Snow
ISBN-10: ="1913097765" · ISBN-13: ="9781913097769"
Published: 2022
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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
ISBN-10: ="0062883674" · ISBN-13: ="9780062883674"
Published: 2020
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Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism Year One
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published:
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Nigger
ISBN-10: ="0671735608" · ISBN-13: ="9780671735609"
Published: 1990
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Winchelsea
ISBN-10: ="1838854851" · ISBN-13: ="9781838854850"
Published: 2022
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Moonfleet
ISBN-10: ="014062144X" · ISBN-13: ="9780140621440"
Published: 1995
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Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
ISBN-10: ="1408706954" · ISBN-13: ="9781408706954"
Published: 2019
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The Colour of the Sky After Rain
ISBN-10: ="1789545048" · ISBN-13: ="9781789545043"
Published: 2020
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
ISBN-10: ="0374159122" · ISBN-13: ="9780374159122"
Published: 2021
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The Refugees
ISBN-10: ="0802126391" · ISBN-13: ="9780802126399"
Published: 2017
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The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)
ISBN-10: ="0802157068" · ISBN-13: ="9780802157065"
Published: 2021
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Hurry on Down
ISBN-10: ="0670001872" · ISBN-13: ="9780670001873"
Published: 1965
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
ISBN-10: ="0671799320" · ISBN-13: ="9780671799328"
Published: 1993
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Dominion
ISBN-10: ="0230744168" · ISBN-13: ="9780230744165"
Published: 2012
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Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
ISBN-10: ="0008203628" · ISBN-13: ="9780008203627"
Published: 2017
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The Russian Interpreter
ISBN-10: ="0571225055" · ISBN-13: ="9780571225057"
Published: 2005
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Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
ISBN-10: ="1786634848" · ISBN-13: ="9781786634849"
Published: 2020
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A Study of History, abridged
ISBN-10: ="0517179415" · ISBN-13: ="9780517179413"
Published: 1989
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The Magician
ISBN-10: ="1476785082" · ISBN-13: ="9781476785080"
Published: 2021
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An Untouched House
ISBN-10: ="1782274618" · ISBN-13: ="9781782274612"
Published: 2018
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Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62
ISBN-10: ="1408844397" · ISBN-13: ="9781408844397"
Published: 2014
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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59
ISBN-10: ="0747588937" · ISBN-13: ="9780747588931"
Published: 2013
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Modernity Britain, 1957-63
ISBN-10: ="0802779794" · ISBN-13: ="9780802779793"
Published: 2012
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Family Britain, 1951-1957
ISBN-10: ="0802717977" · ISBN-13: ="9780802717979"
Published: 2010
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Austerity Britain, 1945-51
ISBN-10: ="0747579857" · ISBN-13: ="9780747579854"
Published: 2007
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London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City
ISBN-10: ="0857526928" · ISBN-13: ="9780857526922"
Published: 2021
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Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes
ISBN-10: ="0747595070" · ISBN-13: ="9780747595076"
Published: 2008
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Making Nice
ISBN-10: ="1472992873" · ISBN-13: ="9781472992871"
Published: 2021
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Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
ISBN-10: ="1472979427" · ISBN-13: ="9781472979421"
Published: 2020
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Greek Myths: A New Retelling
ISBN-10: ="1787331652" · ISBN-13: ="9781787331655"
Published: 2021
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Palaces of Power: The Birth and Evolution of London's Clubland
ISBN-10: ="0750990767" · ISBN-13: ="9780750990769"
Published: 2019
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Writing the Other
ISBN-10: ="193350000X" · ISBN-13: ="9781933500003"
Published: 2007
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A Philosopher Looks at Architecture
ISBN-10: ="1108820425" · ISBN-13: ="9781108820424"
Published: 2021
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The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
ISBN-10: ="1250202574" · ISBN-13: ="9781250202574"
Published: 2020
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The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of All Nations
ISBN-10: ="1473860377" · ISBN-13: ="9781473860377"
Published: 2017
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
ISBN-10: ="052565609X" · ISBN-13: ="9780525656098"
Published: 2021
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Incest and Morris Dancing
ISBN-10: ="0304359386" · ISBN-13: ="9780304359387"
Published: 2002
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The Plagiarist in the Kitchen: A Lifetime's Culinary Thefts
ISBN-10: ="1783522402" · ISBN-13: ="9781783522408"
Published: 2018
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Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988–2020
ISBN-10: ="1783529512" · ISBN-13: ="9781783529513"
Published: 2021
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Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)
ISBN-10: ="" · ISBN-13: =""
Published: 2019
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
ISBN-10: ="4925080814" · ISBN-13: ="9784925080811"
Published: 2005
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The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)
ISBN-10: ="1508503737" · ISBN-13: ="9781508503736"
Published: 2015
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Nightwood
ISBN-10: ="0811216713" · ISBN-13: ="9780811216715"
Published: 2006
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Hot Stew
ISBN-10: ="1643751557" · ISBN-13: ="9781643751559"
Published: 2021
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Elmet
ISBN-10: ="1473660548" · ISBN-13: ="9781473660540"
Published: 2017
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Red Pill
ISBN-10: ="0451493710" · ISBN-13: ="9780451493712"
Published: 2020
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Insatiable
ISBN-10: ="075158018X" · ISBN-13: ="9780751580181"
Published: 2021
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Fake Accounts
ISBN-10: ="1948226928" · ISBN-13: ="9781948226929"
Published: 2021
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