Pride & Prejudice
£10.99A gorgeous pocket edition of Jane Austen’s most enduring and popular novel, with Hugh Thomson’s classic illustrations and an afterword by author and critic, Henry Hitchings.
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Little Prince
£9.99A beautiful, fully illustrated gift edition of The Little Prince, Antione de Saint-Exupéry’s delightful story of humanity, philosophy and the stars.
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Mountain Shadow
£12.99‘Shantaram’ introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In ‘The Mountain Shadow’, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules.
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Dictator
£9.99There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero’s life is in ruins. Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his life constantly in danger, Cicero is tormented by the knowledge that he has sacrificed power for the sake of his principles. His comeback requires wit, skill and courage – and for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But politics is never static and no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others.
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War & War
£10.99‘War & War’ begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town’s archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he commits suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all out onto the world wide web.
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Career Of Evil
£10.99When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark, twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them.
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Death In The Dordogne
£10.99When an old man, head of an immigrant North African family, is found murdered, suspicion falls on the son of a St Denis doctor, found in flagrante playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia. But chief of police, Captain Bruno Courreges, isn’t convinced and instead suspects this crime may have its roots in that most tortured period of recent French history – the Second World War, a time of terror and betrayal that set brother against brother.
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Three Body Problem The
£9.99Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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Measure for measure
£8.99In the Duke Vincentio’s absence from Vienna, his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient law forbidding sex outside marriage. The young Claudio, whose fiancée Juliet is pregnant, is condemned to death by the law. His sister Isabella, soon to become a nun, pleads with Lord Angelo for her brother’s life. But her purity so excites Angelo that he offers her a monstrous bargain – he will save Claudio if Isabella will visit him that night.
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Dune
£10.99This epic tale is set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there they fall into a trap set by his rival.
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The Collector
£10.99Lila Emerson is fascinated by other people’s lives. As a house-sitter she loves looking after the glamorous, sophisticated homes she could never afford herself. And as a writer she enjoys watching the world go by, dreaming up stories for the people she sees from her window. But then she witnesses something only too real – the brutal and shocking murder of a young woman living across the street in New York. Now, because of what she saw, her own life is in immediate danger from an audacious, single-minded assassin who kills for profit and for pleasure. With the police following a false lead, she is on her own. Her only hope is to team up with Ashley Archer, an artist with his own complicated reasons for getting involved.
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Bastard Of Istanbul
£10.99One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a women walks into a doctor’s surgery and announces that she wants an abortion. She is 19 years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life and the lives of everyone around her.
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All The Light We Cannot See
£9.99NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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The Flea Palace
£10.99Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families. When the rubbish at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.