On Stranger Tides

Tim Powers

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Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel1718: Puppeteer John Chandagnac has set sail for Jamaica to recover his stolen inheritance, when his ship …

Purge

Sofi Oksanen

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A blowfly. Unusually large, loud, and eager to lay its eggs. It was lying in wait to get into the kitchen, rubbing its wings and feet against the curtain as if preparing to feast. It was after meat, n …

Tribune of Rome

Robert Fabbri

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The first instalment of Robert Fabbri’s bestselling Vespasian series. A red-blooded historical adventure series charting the rise of Vespasian from rural obscurity to Emperor of Rome. A seamless blend …

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Gaile Parkin

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Shortlisted for the 2010 McKitterick PrizeMeet Angel Tungaraza, professional cake-baker, amateur matchmaker, an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on. A uniquely charming, funny and touching novel of …

Desert

J.M.G Le Clézio

RRP: £11.99

Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour’s tribe – the Blue Men – are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst …

Today

David Miller

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPEARS NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD August 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents’ home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for the bank holiday we …

The Bones of Avalon

Phil Rickman

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It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year. Dr John Dee, at 32 already acclaimed throughout Europe, is her astrologer and consultant in the hidden arts… a controversial appoin …

Appaloosa

Robert B. Parker

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New Mexico Territory, 1882: two itinerant lawmen walk their horses down the long, shale-scattered slope into the frontier town of Appaloosa. Below them, lies rancher Randall Braggs’ new fiefdom. Ever …

The Brothers Boswell

Philip Baruth

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30th July, 1763. Two striking figures part the heaving crowd at London Bridge. Peddlers cease their haggling, ferrymen grow quiet, beggars stop and stare. Even the stink of the Thames seems to fade in …

The Golden Mean

Annabel Lyon

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Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the …

The Mayan Codex

Mario Reading

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Adam Sabir has discovered the missing quatrains of Nostradamus, and the events they foretell are coming true. But there’s one prophecy he can’t fully decipher, and it warns of the imminent arrival of …

Peace

Richard Bausch

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Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky c …

Declare

Tim Powers

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A mesmerising, award-winning, daringly imaginative, multi-levelled thriller for fans of John le Carre or Neal Stephenson, Declare reveals the secret history of the twentieth century

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Richard Powers

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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORY_____________________Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Special Citation, PEN Hemin …

White Ghost Girls

Alice Greenway

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Longlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionA Radio 4 Book at BedtimeTwo sisters grow together and apart into their emerging selves. Frankie pulses with curiosity and risk; Kate is watchful, all eyes a …

Desert

J.M.G Le Clézio

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The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation.Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and …