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Format: Paperback Book type: Anthology ISBN-13: 9781912697571 Published: 01 Jun 2022
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Sale!The new novel from the twice Booker Prize-nominated Sarah Hall. An electrifying novel of passion, connection and transformation from "a writer of show-stopping genius" (The Guardian) ''In many ways ... Burntcoat feels like a culmination of Hall’s work and, in my opinion, it is her finest yet" - Ruth Gilligan, The Independent"You were the last one here before I closed the door of Burntcoat, before we all shut our doors. In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days. Downstairs, the studio is a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world." (Excerpt) Special Offer: This book is being offered p&p free (shown as £3.20 off the RRP) for a limited period, to tie in with our re-scheduled author event which is a part of our Autumn Weekend programme. Please note, signed bookplates are available with this book, just add one to your basket if you would like to have one included free with your order."Burntcoat is a book full of wisdom about the crisis of our times" - Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times"Burntcoat hovers somewhere between the literal truth and what, during the worst moments of the pandemic, many of us feared the truth might be" - Claire Allfree, The Times
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Sale!"Marvellous and terrifying” – Sunday Times "Superb” – Daily Mail Special Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 off the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022. The electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under. 'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller' Observer
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 off the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022.
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A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK' CHOICE A sharp, breath-taking exploration of love and relationships. "Trust unfolds with all the tension of a thriller despite much of the action taking place in the mind of the protagonist." - Big Issue North
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Sale!What happens to Ordinary lives when international concerns intrude? What does it mean to belong when the various strands of our identity are brought into conflict? How do we survive to re-invent ourselves when we have seen the world torn apart? Special Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
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ISBN: 0954791312 Genre: Fiction Publisher: Tindal Street Press
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Terminal Boredom has been selected as Litfest's International Fiction Book Club (IFBC) choice for January 2022. Learn more about the IFBC here. Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English-language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 off the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022. A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR 'It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story' Hilary Mantel 'So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting' Maggie O'Farrell
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 of the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022. A Story Told In Poems By Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner Nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 21, and shortlisted for CILLIP Carnegie Medal 21 Intense imaginative power combines with brilliant poetic technique in a major new work by one of the leading poets writing for young people.
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 of the Publisher’s RRP until 31st March 2022. "Lyrical, moving, revealing." - Tracy Chevalier "Such beautiful writing… A little bit Rear Window, a little bit Home Fire, a little bit Shameless. I loved it" - Louisa Young "Daring and devastating" - Fiona Mozley "Compelling and original, Silence Is a Sense is uncomfortably close to the bone, depicting a country riven by racism and violence" - Observer
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "A remarkable novel” - The Irish Times "An unputdownable read" - The Scotsman Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
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Sale!A Man Booker Prize shortlisted author "heartbreaking and compelling” - The Observer "shimmers with edgy brilliance" - Sunday Herald Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
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Sale!Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "Remarkable” - Daily Mail "A true virtuoso" - Sunday Telegraph "a novel of extraordinary power" - Guardian Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022 'An artfully plotted tale about race, privilege and guilt... careful reading proves richly rewarding' - Lucy Poescu, The Observer 'Phenotypes underscores how difficult antiracist projects can be at any scale...Scott's characters quickly abandon the possibility of a comprehensive solution in favor of stopgap measures that may or may not work. Such are the inadequacies, the novel asserts, of treating entrenched and systemic issues as if they are only skin-deep.' - The New York Times Book Review 'A compelling exploration of the fraught reality of race relations in Brazil ... there is much that English-speaking readers stand to gain from the considered, quiet fury of Paulo Scott's novel, not least the expansion of and challenge to modern-day discourses on race.' - Laura Garmeson, Times Literary Supplement
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Translated from the Spanish by Roy Kesey Published 2020 Paperback 216 pages ISBN 978-1641291309
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Sale!Each story places us inside the desperate world of a child trying to make sense of abuse, and what it is doing to her, or at least to the part of her able to speak. Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"Its emotional tenor remains buoyant and unfaltering from the first page to the last" - TLS Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"Sue Gee's stories are remarkable for their precision and economy - this is a lovely collection" - Penelope Lively " A consummate artist" - Shena Mackay "Poignant and haunting, immensely readable” - Salt Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"Hugely enjoyable and rewarding" - Independent "Riveting and affecting" - Guardian Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"A wonderful novel... transforms the stuff of life into art" - Philippa Gregory in The Sunday Times Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"Unashamedly romantic and sensual, but also so sparely written that the economy of her writing is breathtaking... a beautiful, redemptive book" - Glasgow Herald Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 off the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022. 'A delightfully engaging mystery.' - Katherine Woodfine 'A magical rollercoaster of a ride.' - Marie Basting 'Satisfyingly sprinkled with clues to sniff out, this is a timeless, accessible and well-paced mystery with bags of atmosphere.' - Booktrust
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Sale!Hardback, 1st edition, in d/w Published by Faber & Faber, 2007 Number of pages: 224 We are offering this book at 25% off the publishers RRP
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Sale!"I read The Loney in one sleepless night, and it has haunted me ever since" - Daily Telegraph Paperback, 360pp Special Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2010), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (2010) Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Affectionate reminiscences of Lancaster's The Storey building. Home of Lancaster Litfest.
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ISBN: 9781842993484 Genre: Fiction Publisher: Barrington Stoke
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Sale!An ancient evil is waiting... Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!An anthology of stories edited by Geoff Ryman. Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence. Through the use of diverse, credible, and contemporary research areas - from Planck length to plankton and virtual conversations between Wittgenstein and Turing to future civilizations torn asunder by differences over particle physics - these stories reinstate the furnace of scientific endeavour. Text taken from Fantastic Fiction."'Highly engaging and fascinating... this thought-provoking collection reminded me why I used to like science fiction so much... Eventually, one hopes, science fiction will regain its rightful place - as once again stranger than science.'” - The Guardian Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
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Sale!Jennet’s family all believe they are witches. Other folks think they are, too. But 1612 is a dangerous time to be a witch. When her family are imprisoned and put on trial in Lancaster Castle, Jennet’s evidence will help decide their fate…
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Sale!Signed bookplates are available with purchases of this book, but please be aware that we have a limited quantity, and packages that include signed bookplates may take longer to dispatch.
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When Mary’s father the fisherman is killed in a storm, Mary uncovers a terrible war between land and sea. To save her town from being swallowed by the waves, Mary must face the wild water that took her father and go on a journey like no other.
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