Why We Sleep Northanger Abbey
£12.99A gorgeous special edition of Jane Austen’s superb pastiche of the gothic romance to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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Pride and prejudice
£12.99A gorgeous special edition of Jane Austen’s most enduring and popular novel to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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Mansfield Park
£12.99A gorgeous special edition of Austen’s classic novel about class and virtue to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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Persuasion
£12.99A gorgeous special edition of Jane Austen’s most sophisticated novel to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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Sense and sensibility
£12.99A special edition of Jane Austen’s elegant novel of family, society and manners to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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Slaughterhouse 5
£9.99Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber’s assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?
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Light over Liskeard
£9.99Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven. Over the course of this quest he meets the eccentric characters who already live on the moors nearby – including the park ranger in charge of the reintroduced lynxes and aurochs that roam the area; a holy man waiting for the second coming on top of a nearby hill; an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse. As life in the cities gets more complicated, and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart, Q flourishes in the wild Cornish countryside.
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Long Island compromise
£20.00In 1982, wealthy businessman Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Carl, his wife and his three kids all try to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream. But nearly 40 years later, when Carl’s mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers’ lives all this time surfaces at last. Finally, Carl allows himself to acknowledge what happened to him all those years ago, and face the question that’s been idling in his mind for a quarter of a century: where did the ransom go? And if he were ever to find the money, would it finally give him and his family the closure they’ve been yearning for?
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Death and the penguin
£9.99Viktor is lonely, with only Misha, his penguin, for company. He is desperate to earn a living as a writer. He gets a break when the editor-in-chief of a major newspaper commissions him to write obituaries of Kiev’s VIP’s. But are his worries now over?
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The glow
£10.99Jane Dorner has two modes: PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator. Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her crushing mountain of overdue bills. Enter the impossibly gorgeous Cass, whom Jane discovers scrolling through Instagram – the guru of a ‘wellness retreat’ based out of a ramshackle country house that may or may not be giving off cult vibes. Suddenly Jane realises she might have found the one ladder she can climb. But inner peace and glowing skin will always come at a price.
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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.