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

Wolverton Hill

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A 12-year-old Anglo-Indian boy is sent by his family in Coventry to Calcutta in 1943, to get him to safety with his grandfather. There he turns to code-breaking... For ages 8-11.

Under Fire

Sufiya Ahmed

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£7.99

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Literary/political account of the author's visit to Israel in 1975, in which he gives voice to those he encounters: government notables, famous writers, barbers... and offers his particular ... read more

To Jerusalem and Back

Saul Bellow

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£10.99

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Wry, chatty, glitzy memoir by the former editor of Vanity Fair, staff writer for Time and Life, and co-creator of Spy. His stable of writers included Christopher Hitchens, Fran Lebowitz and ... read more

When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last ...

Graydon Carter

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£20

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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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£18.99

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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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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 Around the Edges of Britain and Ireland ...

Lisa Woollett

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A writer, poet, painter and doctor, Levi was banished to the remote and extremely poor region of Lucania for his opposition to Mussolini's regime. Described as a documentary novel, this is a... read more

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Carlo Levi

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Pioneering life in Nebraska in the late C19th, told through the eyes of a young orphan sent to live with his grandparents. This novel, first published in 1918, is utterly transporting and en... read more

My Antonia

Willa Cather

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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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Sharp, probing and morbidly funny, the book is a fictional retelling of the life of surrealist Austrian film director G W Pabst. Faced with relative anonymity in Hollywood, Pabst returned to... read more

The Director

Daniel Kehlmann

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£22

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Lispector's last novel follows Macabea, a poor, sickly typist living in the slums of Rio who dreams of glamour but lives a life defined by invisibility and powerlessness. The narrator Rodrig... read more

Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

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