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Recent Releases
"Read all about it. Read all about it." Here's where to find some of our favourites amongst the paperbacks and hardbacks released over the last month or so (or maybe a bit longer if we really like a book and can't find another list to shoe-horn it into).
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2666 Robert Bolano Epic novel in fictional crime-ridden US/Mexico border town, Santa Teresa Paperback - Picador 2009 … |
£8.99 | |
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Benny & Shrimp Mazetti, Katerina An offbeat love story told in alternating chapters by the endearing protagonists. Kooky translated Swedish fiction. Paperback - Short Books - 2009… |
£7.99 | |
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Bluebird Maric, Vesna Suprisingly buoyant Balkan war memoir describing the author's own evacuation from Bosnia to Penrith at the age of 16 Paperback - Granta Books - 2009… |
£12.99 | |
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Bog Child Siobhan Dowd Teenage/Adult Siobhan Dowd was becoming a highly respected new talent on the children's literary scene before she tragically died whilst only in her forties. This was one of the two unpublished works at her death - a superb read for teenagers and adults alike. Set in Northern Ireland dur… |
£6.99 | |
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Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Diaz, Junot Life in the Dominican Republic, where event the ghettos are home to some of the world's most beautiful and exotic people, is not much fun for Oscar Wao, the only fat boy in Santo Doming. Oscar Wao is a heartbreakingly hopeless social outcast whose only love are his science fiction novels… |
£7.99 | |
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Brooklyn Toibin, Colm The novel follows Eilis, the less self-assured of two sisters living in small-town Ireland in the 1950s, as she is cajoled into moving to Brooklyn in search of work and a better life. Her initial home sickness is gradually replaced with a new confidence and satisfaction with her lot as she adapts to… |
£7.99 | |
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Cellist of Sarajevo Stephen Galloway Three characters dodge sniper-fire in wartorn Bosnia as a cellist plays on regardless in a bomb crater. Paperback - Atlantic Books - 2009… |
£7.99 | |
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Enough - Breaking free from the World of More John Naish A timely reminder that we've all got enough stuff (apart from books) Paperback - Hodder & Stoughton - 2009… |
£7.99 | |
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History of Histories John Burrow Critically acclaimed history of 2500 years of history writing and writers Paperback - Penguin - 2009… |
£12.99 | |
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My Tango With Barbara Strozzi Hoban, Russell In a few words: Confused artistic types forge relationship and deal with remnants of their previous ones against a contemporary London backdrop of art, music, astrology and tango. In more words: A short and often eccentric novel about Phil Ockerman, a writer of “boring” novels,… |
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Netherland O'Neill, Joseph Tipped for the 2008 Booker Prize, Joseph O'Neill's novel "Netherland" adds to the "Post 9/11 New York Life" genre which is finally and inevitably burgeoning (following in the footsteps of Don DeLillo's "Falling Man" and Mohsin Hamid's "The Reluctant… |
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Nocturnes Ishiguro, Kazuo Even if you would never usually pick up a book of short stories, do make an exception for this thought-provoking and atmospheric new collection by one of the current literary greats, Kazuo Ishiguro, most famous for “Remains of the Day”. In each cleverly-constructed story, the coming-to… |
£7.99 |