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Books in the Media

A selection of titles featured in the popular media over the coming days.


Toibin, Colm
Hardback

A novel of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty.

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24 - 48 Hours
£17.99

Adamson, Gil
Paperback

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£10.99

Pizzichini, Lilian
Hardback

A dazzling new portrait of Jean Rhys, the troubled, incandescent author of Wide Sargasso Sea. A R...

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24 - 48 Hours
£18.99

Osborne, John
Paperback

The hilarious and revealing account of the author's month as a Radio Head: listening to a differe...

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24 - 48 Hours
£9.99

Guo, Xiaolu
Paperback

Fenfang has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in Beijing, and has no desire to return to t...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Guo, Xiaolu
Paperback

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learni...

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£7.99

Motion, Andrew
Hardback

Offers a variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer oth...

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£12.99

Kennedy, A.L.
Paperback

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lan...

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£7.99

Tressell, Robert; Hunt, Tristram
Paperback

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one...

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£9.99

Wodehouse, P.G.
Hardback

Offers an insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act. All the stor...

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£10.99

Twain, Mark; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Editor); Moser, Barry (Illustrator)
Paperback

A three-act play by Mark Twain, one of America's most important and well-loved writers. It interm...

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24 - 48 Hours
£10.95

Arnott, Jake
Hardback

A stunning historical novel by the bestselling author of THE LONG FIRM.

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24 - 48 Hours
£15.00

Parkinson, Michael
Paperback

The bestselling and long-awaited autobiography of a national icon.

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Larkin, Philip
Paperback

A collection of poems from a "tenderly observant" poet who writes about what all of us can unders...

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24 - 48 Hours
£8.99

Steinbeck, John
Paperback

Classic / American English (Available April 2008) During the Great Depression in the United State...

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£5.90

Calvino, Italo; Parks, Tim; Creagh, Patrick; McLaughlin, Martin; Weaver, William (Translator)
Hardback

A collection of stories about the evolution of the universe.

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£20.00

Calvino, Italo
Paperback

A triptych of novels in one volume. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a cannonball on the plains of...

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£8.99

Calvino, Italo; McLaughlin, Martin (Translator)
Paperback

A volume of posthumously collected personal writings of the author, from the early 1950s to his l...

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£8.99

Wyndham, John
Paperback

David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blas...

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99

Smith, Ali
Paperback

A collection of stories that unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday.

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24 - 48 Hours
£7.99
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