A selection of titles featured in the popular media over the coming days.
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Chatwin, Bruce
Paperback
Book at Bedtime - Monday 17 - Friday 21 November
A tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They...
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Everett, Daniel
Paperback
Book of the Week - Monday 17 - Friday 21 November
Daniel Everett took his family to convert the Pirahas, a remote people of the Amazonian jungle wh...
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Clare, Horatio
Paperback
Good Read - Sue MacGregor's choice:
'Do you want to spend your whole life on the tube? Wouldn't you rather live somewhere wild and be...
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O'farrell, Maggie
Paperback
A Good Read - Caroline Charles's choice:
Maggie O'Farrell is a consistent "Sunday Times" bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Her no...
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Frankl, Viktor E.
Paperback
A Good Read - Josie d'Arby's choice:
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the ...
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Mackay, Shena (Editor)
Paperback
Open Book - Shena Mackay is perhaps best known for her novels Heligoland, shortlisted for the Orange prize five years ago, and her Booker-nominated The Orchard on Fire. But she's also been widely praised for her entertaining and often mordant short stories. She talks to Mariella about her new collection of stories, and why she finds embarrassment such a powerful fictional tool.
Delightful stories on the remarkable and unbreakable ties that bind sisters from prestigious writ...
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James, P.D.
Paperback
Features three of P D James' best-selling Adam Dalgliesh mysteries: "A Taste for Death", "Devices...
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£14.99
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Rubenhold, Hallie
Hardback
In February 1782, England opened their newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard Worsley vs G...
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£25.00
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Bostridge, Mark
Hardback
The soldier's saviour, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer - and ...
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Hines, Barry
Paperback
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small York...
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Sebald, W.G.
Paperback
A work of imaginative literature, this fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East...
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Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda
Paperback
A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented b...
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Marnham, Patrick
Paperback
Mary Wesley famously began writing at the age of 70. Her ten best-selling novels won her thousand...
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Koestler, Arthur
Paperback
N S Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to an unnamed government. This novel traces hi...
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Dyer, Geoff
Paperback
When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff D...
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Mason, Daniel
Paperback
It is 1886 and piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office - he must l...
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Morrison, Toni
Hardback
In the 1680s, the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and c...
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Mackay, Shena
Hardback
Contains thirteen new stories, and a selection of twenty-three more from the collections of the a...
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£17.99
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Hasek, Jaroslav; Parrott, Cecil (Translator); Lada, Josef (Illustrator)
Paperback
Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier...
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£10.99
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Wullschlager, Jackie
Hardback
Book of the Week - Monday 27 - Friday 31 October
Presents an account of Chagall, the man and the artist - and of a life as intense, theatrical and...
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£30.00
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