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  • THE POWER OF THE DOG
    THOMAS SAVAGE
    **NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA AWARDS**Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century America. Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder.Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess...
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  • A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS : VINTAGE VOYAGES
    GUO, XIAOLU
    A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love, language and identity.Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an eve...
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  • TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT : VINTAGE VOYAGES
    GREENE, GRAHAM
    Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt.Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Par...
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  • SISTERS: VINTAGE MINIS
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
    Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique bond. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four of the most famous sisters in literature, and these stories of the joys and heartaches the...
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  • FRIENDSHIP : VINTAGE MINIS
    TREMAIN, ROSE
    What is the secret to true friendship? Is it really love's quieter relation or something stronger and more profound? And where does the line between the two lie? Rose Tremain looks at two unlikely lifelong friendships, which - though tested - prove unbreakable. Thought-provoking and life-affirming, this is at once an examination and a celebration of friendship in all its glorio...
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  • FREEDOM : VINTAGE MINIS
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    Can we ever be wholly free?In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to speak and to act to preserve our freedom while we still can. And in that, t...
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  • DESIRE: VINTAGE MINIS
    MURAKAMI, HARUKI
    You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.Selected from...
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  • LOVE: VINTAGE MINIS
    WINTERSON, JEANETTE
    How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love.Selected from the books of Jeanette Winter...
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  • RAVE: VINTAGE MINIS
    WELSH, IRVINR
    Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a spot of disc jockeying and clos...
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  • FAMILY: VINTAGE MINIS
    HADDON, MARK
    'Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky'Where do you go if you can't feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can't fathom who you become? In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, in doing s...
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  • MARRIAGE: VINTAGE MINIS
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again. Here are stolen glances and nervous advances, meddling parents and self-important cousins, society whisperings and the fluttering hearts of young lovers. All of them have their own views and expectations of marriage,...
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  • JEALOUSY
    MARCEL PROUST
    Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first love. There is no greater chronicler of jealousy's darkest fears and destructive...
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  • AUSTERITY: VINTAGE MINIS
    YAANIS VAROUFAKIS
    How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action. Passionately outs...
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  • GHOSTS
    M.R.JAMES
    A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A bed that hasn't been slept in is crumpled and distressed come the morning. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. I...
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  • LONDON : VINTAGE MINIS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens knew the city inside out, walking the streets day and night, in all weathers, and drawing inspiration from everything he saw. The fog, the mud, the churning river, the clamour of church bells...
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  • THE WAR POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN
    OWEN, WILFRED
    'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent "down some profound dull tunnel" in the stinking mud of the Western Front. For most readers of English poetry, the face under that helmet is that of Wilfred Owen.' Professor Jon Stallworthy, from his Introduction.When...
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  • BRAVE NEW WORLD
    HUXLEY, ALDOUS
    The graphic novel adaptation of the classic dystopian masterpiece. From Fred Fordham, graphic novelist behind the sensational TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD graphic novel. Originally published in 1932, Brave New World is one of the most revered and profound works of twentieth century literature.Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley's enduring ...
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  • WALDEN
    THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is his personal account of the experience, in which he documents the beauty and fulfilment to be found in the wilderness, and his...
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  • FATHERHOOD: VINTAGE MINIS
    KNAUSGAARD, KARL OVE
    Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads. How to be a good father? Children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard's compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tendernes...
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  • LIES: VINTAGE MINIS
    WILDE, OSCAR
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  • RELIGION: VINTAGE MINIS
    ARMSTRONG, KAREN
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  • HOME: VINTAGE MINI
    RUSHDIE, SALMAN
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  • MOTHERHOOD: VINTAGE MINIS
    SIMPSON, HELEN
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  • HANDMAIDS TALE
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first c...
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  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The TestamentsNOW AN AWARD-WINNING TV SERIES STARRING ELISABETH MOSSOffred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Comm...
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  • THE TERRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED TO BARNABY BROCKET
    BOYNE, JOHN
    Barnaby Brocket is an ordinary 8-year-old boy in most ways, but he was born different in one important way: he floats. Unlike everyone else, Barnaby does not obey the law of gravity. His parents, who have a horror of being noticed, want desperately for Barnaby to be normal, but he can't help who he is. And when the unthinkable happens, Barnaby finds himself on a journey that ta...
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  • THE TIME MACHINE
    H. G. WELLS
    Amb la nova màquina del temps, l’autor viatja des d’un sopar a una taula Victoriana fins a l’any 802,701 AD, i encara fins a l’últim dia del nostre planeta, un estrany crepuscul fosc i amb molt de vent. Imaginació brillant o predicció del futur? Aquest llibre es considera l’obra mestra de Wells. ...
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  • UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
    LAHIRI, JHUMPA
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  • THE INFINITIES
    BANVILLE, JOHN
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  • NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
    ORWELL, GEORGE
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