Short History Of Nearly Everything Nocturnes
£8.99Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme – the struggle to keep alive a sense of life’s romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.
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Never Let Me Go
£9.99Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham – an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there?
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Selected Poems W H Auden
£16.99Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of ‘Selected Poems’, adding 20 items to the 100 in the original edition, & broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical & tonal range, & the variousness of content in Auden’s poetry, in the confines of one volume.
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When The Lights Went Out
£12.99The 70s are probably the most important and fascinating period in modern British political history. ‘When The Lights Went Out’ goes in search of what really happened, what it felt like at the time, and where it was all leading.
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Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
£9.99Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he’s sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling in love. But poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the ancient curse that has haunted his family for generations.
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Amongst Women
£9.99Moran is an old Republican whose life is transformed forever by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting in a struggle to come to terms with the past.
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Walk the blue fields
£9.99In her second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past, and it is against this landscape that the stories so beautifully articulate all the yearnings of the human heart.
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Janissary Tree
£7.99A concubine is strangled in the Sultan’s palace harem, and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city’s tumultuous past, the eunuch Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire.
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Family Matters
£10.99Nariman Vakeel is a 79 year-old widower beset by Parkinson’s disease and haunted by memories of the past. When his illness is compounded by a broken ankle, he’s forced to take up residence with his daughter Roxana, her husband Yezad and their two sons. This pushes Yezad into a scheme of deception – with devastating consequences.
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Fine Balance
£9.99In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, Ishvar and Omprakesh Darji, tailors who have been forced from the country into the city, and young student Maneck Kohlah are painfully putting together a new life, and making a family of sorts amidst crisis.
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1599 Year In Life Of William Shakespeare
£14.99Here is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature as we know it.
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A Long Long Way
£9.99Set at the onset of World War One, ‘A Long Long Way’ evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie Dunne and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. It also explores and dramatizes the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland.