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A second volume of memoir.

Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life

Donna Leon

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£12.99

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Drawn from thirteen collections and published to mark his 85th birthday.

Ash Keys: New Selected Poems

Michael Longley

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A new collection.

The Empire of Forgetting

John Burnside

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More fantastical adventures in the second of Rundell's Impossible Creatures series. For ages 8-12.

The Poisoned King

Katherine Rundell

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The author retired from teaching in Yorkshire to devote himself to looking after badgers... and then foxes and deer...

Interrupted Journeys: Badgers and Other Roadside Distractions ...

Adrian Potter

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By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. A counterpoint to the 'Great American Road Trip', JP's narrative spins history, literature... read more

Greyhound

Joanna Pocock

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Curious tale of a museum worker and a statue of Venus falling in love. Translated from the Japanese.

When the Museum is Closed

Emi Yagi

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The Maude translation from Everyman. Edna O'Brien loved this.

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy

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A 'constellation' novel, full of images and fragments, set in a hamlet in Silesia. A revised translation.

House of Day, House of Night

Olga Tokarczuk

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Goncourt-winning historical love story.

Watching Over Her

Jean-Baptiste Andrea

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Like the eponymous strip, this book has no clear beginning or end: Lacey's blend of fiction and biography meet somewhere in the middle, physically and intellectually. These separate but comp... read more

The Moebius Book

Catherine Lacey

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Large format, illustrated and very wonderful! For ages 6-12.

The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear, Who I ...

Wolverton Hill

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An excellent and informative book on whales, illustrated and set out somewhat in the manner of William Grill'sShackleton's Journey. For ages 6-9.

The Whale’s Song: Discover the Giants of our Oceans ...

Rossana Bossu

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Bourdain for trendy millennials and astonishingly generous with the F word.

Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef

Slutty Cheff

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A lyrical memoir of deafness. He's won both the Ted Hughes Award and Rathbone's Folio Prize for his poetry.

The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound

Raymond Antrobus

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From one of the foremost historians of the Soviet Union, here is a sizzling murder story set during Stalin's construction of the Moscow underground.

Moscow Underground

Catherine Merridale

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The tragi-comic tribulations of an American family.

Vera, Or Faith

Gary Shteyngart

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Unnervingly taut tales.

Good and Evil and Other Stories

Samanta Schweblin

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A passionate love affair across the social divide in the years after the Spanish Civil War. First English translation of Mars?'s 1996 masterpiece.

Last Evenings with Teresa

Juan Marse

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This blistering satire on the reporting of war is a strong debut novel.

Vulture

Phoebe Greenwood

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From one of Austen's biographers, here is an entertaining novel in which Jane and her family are on holiday in Sidmouth in 1801, where her naval brother is on leave and handsome strangers st... read more

Six Weeks by the Sea

Paula Byrne

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This first-hand account was written by a radiologist who survived the bombing but died of leukaemia in 1951. It is published in English for the first time on the 80th anniversary.

The Bells of Nagasaki

Takashi Nagai

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An unsettling satire of the corporate workplace.

The Expansion Project

Ben Pester

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Ravishingly illustrated with ink wash and brush, this is a tale about a mythological creature that inhabits China's primeval forests and a mischievous wind. Together they encounter a lake, a... read more

Take a Walk with the Wind

Xiong Liang

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This seminal Spanish novel is set in Estremadura in the 1960s, where tensions simmer between impoverished workers and their wealthy landlords.

The Holy Innocents: A Novel

Miguel Delibes

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A successful actress meets a young man at a New York restaurant who claims to be her son. Instead of resolving the ambiguity or allegation of that relationship, this short novel considers - ... read more

Audition

Katie M. Kitamura

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A short biography of the brave lady in the hat.

Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vig?e Le Brun ...

Jordana Pomeroy

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A useful narrative of the book's writing, reception and legacy.

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel

Mark Hussey

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Wendy's married name is Graves; and after 40 years, she can only see one way to keep her secrets safe...

Kill Your Darlings

Peter Swanson

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Set in Cairo in 1938, when a woman goes to look for her estranged father who has mysteriously disappeared...

Cairo Gambit

S. W. Perry

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Sharp satire on late capitalist horrors takes us from the City to the Brazilian rainforest, by a writer undersung for his novels.

The Pentecost Papers

Ferdinand Mount

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From a former winner of the International Booker, translated from the Bulgarian, this is a poignant tale of a father, son and a fading garden.

Death and the Gardener

Georgi Gospodinov

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The sisters we loved in Hideous Kinky are back - older now and kicking off in the punk London of the 1970s.

My Sister and Other Lovers

Esther Freud

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A novel about MacBryde and Colquhoun.

The Two Roberts

Damian Barr

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Begins with the Nakba of 1948.

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan

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An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more

Lost to the Sea: A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland ...

Lisa Woollett

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