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Synopsis The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #7 There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Pr...

Synopsis A brilliant romantic comedy exploring beach basics for the broken-hearted from number one bestselling author Mike Gayle. Their holiday b...

Synopsis First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a ma...

Synopsis Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018. Less is a satirical comedy novel by American author Andrew Sean Greer first published in ...

Synopsis Happy to Be Here is a collection of short stories by Garrison Keillor, first published in hardcover by Viking in 1981. It is Keillor's fir...

Synopsis An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting li...

Synopsis Comic novel about old age and the trouble which such a state brings. Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis...

Synopsis This is the second novel in the "Corduroy Mansions" series by Alexander McCall Smith. In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlic...

Synopsis A powerful, contemporary & humorous novel set in London from a master of literary fiction. London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Ov...

Synopsis An irresistible French sensation The Reader on the 6.27 explores the power of books through the lives of the people they save. It is sure ...

Synopsis When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine - and a dashing sommelier - he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He...

Synopsis From the acclaimed author of The Biology of Luck comes a hilarious, Kafkaesque satire. Arnold Brinkman is a shy and retiring botanist; he...

Synopsis The intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent begin in the first volume of the 'trilogy of five', Douglas Adams' comedy sci-fi classic The H...

Synopsis Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tr...

Synopsis Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social...

Synopsis Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage flo...

Synopsis The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author Howard Jacobson. The novel won the Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a pro...

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 Angelique De Xavier #3 If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a gr...

Synopsis Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a hi...

Synopsis Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. ...

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...