The Vegetarian: A Novel
£9.99Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, ‘The Vegetarian’ is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire, and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.
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Brooklyn Film Tie
£9.99In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.
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Wigs on the Green
£9.99Eugenia Malmain is an ardent supporter of General Jack and the Union Jackshirts, one of the richest girls in England; Noel and Jasper are both in search of an heiress; Poppy and Marjorie are nursing lovelorn hearts; and the beautiful bourgeois Mrs Lace is on the prowl for someone to lighten the boredom of her life.
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A Man Called Ove
£9.99There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots – neighbours who can’t reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d’etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents’ Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isn’t it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?
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Funny Girl
£9.99Make them laugh, and they’re yours forever. It’s the swinging 60s and the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball.
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Lives Of Girls & Women
£9.99Del Jordan’s said goodbye to childhood – to catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler – and now she’s impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos and hair-shampooing advice dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during backseat fumbles. Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life. In her only novel, Alice Munro turns her eye to the frustrations, embarrassments, glee and bewilderment of adolescence, and to the brushes with sex, death, violence and birth that shape the lives of girls and women.
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Elizabeth is Missing
£9.99‘Elizabeth is missing’, reads the note in Maud’s pocket in her own handwriting. Lately, Maud’s been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she’s made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend, Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey, years back, just after the war.
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What A Carve Up
£9.99The Winshaw family are getting richer and cruler by the day. But once the narrator, Michael Owen, uncovers their trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings throughout the 1980s, the time seems ripe for their come uppance.
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Solo
£9.99It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M’s orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond’s renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of geopolitical intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.
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Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden
£9.99SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 FICTION BESTSELLER
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED
Just because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it . . .
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Old Filth
£10.99Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan – one of the many young children sent ‘home’ from the East to be fostered and educated in England. This novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age.