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Synopsis Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age of seven Morley has ...

Synopsis The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable as...

Synopsis The International Bestseller - over 300,000 copies sold. A delightful and quirky story about Monsieur Jean Perdu’s Literary Apothecary: a ...

Synopsis The Number 1 International Bestseller. Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and ...

Synopsis A breakneck race against time . . . and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying charac...

Synopsis Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It ...

Synopsis Vespasian #1. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his bro...

Synopsis A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you hav...

Synopsis This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially com...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. A Million Copy Best-Seller. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell an...

Synopsis Subtitled : A guide to spiritual enlightenment. 20th Anniversary Edition. The bestselling self-help book of its generation - which has now...

Synopsis In Naomi Alderman’s The Power, the balance of the world is irrevocably altered overnight - women now dominate. The novel weaves four centr...

Synopsis First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literat...

Synopsis Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door wit...

Synopsis Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of...

Synopsis Tailored to meet the needs of the first time bonsai owner, this book is an extensive directory of every major bonsai type. Bonsai Basics e...

Synopsis On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950's underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his h...

Synopsis Winner of The Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction. Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction. A Short History of Tractors in Uk...

Synopsis Athlete, activist, rebel, poet, legend - Muhammad Ali stood larger than life in the imagination of hundreds of millions of people around t...

Synopsis Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks E...

Synopsis Winner of the Bancroft Prize. This first volume in "The Americans" trilogy defines the unique qualities of the American nation and redisco...

Synopsis Three California's Triptych #2. 2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and mall...

Synopsis The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke’s short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood’s End wer...

Synopsis About Scotland is a complete source book about Scotland providing a huge range of information in an accessible form. A handy reference gui...