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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • WILD PLACES : SELECTED STORIES
    MANSFIELD, KATHERINE
    A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple.The shift of a heart, the beat of a moment, the changing of the light: in these stories emoti...
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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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  • 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
    WELLS, H. G.
    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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  • BRAVE NEW WORLD
    ALDOUS HUXLEY
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  • ORLANDO
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, 36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as ...
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  • SANDCASTLE
    MURDOCH, IRIS
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  • SWIMMING : VINTAGE MINIS
    DEAKIN, ROGER
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  • RACE : VINTAGE MINIS
    MORRISON, TONI
    An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century's primary chroniclers of the African American experience.Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and co...
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  • MONEY : VINTAGE MINIS
    HARARI, YUVAL NOAH
    Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariHow did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on a journey from the very first coins through to 21st century economics and sh...
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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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  • ART : VINTAGE MINIS
    SCHAMA, SIMON
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  • SCIENCE : VINTAGE MINIS
    MCEWAN, IAN
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  • GREETINGS FROM BURY PARK
    MANZOOR, SARFRAZ
    Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when, in 1974, he emigrated from Pakistan to Britain with his mother, brother, and sister. Sarfraz spent his teenage years in a constant battle, trying to reconcile being both British and Muslim, trying to fit in at school and at home. But it was when his best friend introduced him to the music of Bruce Springsteen that his life changed complet...
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  • DREAMS : VINTAGE MINIS
    FREUD, SIGMUND
    VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the recesses of our minds, and awakens the hidden meanings behind our most typical and surprising night-time fantasies. From dreams of violence and death, to the more prosaic moments...
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  • INDEPENDENCE: VINTAGE MINIS
    BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
    'To myself alone could I look'Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe are heroines who depend upon no one but themselves. In the face of hardship, from small sacrifices to great heartache, they cling resolutely to their principles of self-reliance. Lucy's energy and enterprise take her to Belgium and a career in teaching, whilst Jane's honest, intelligent mind draws declarations of love. Both...
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  • HAPPY ALL THE TIME
    COLWIN, LAURIE
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