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Sarmada
Fadi Azzam
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Set in the Druze area, this title presents a declaration of love for tolerance and for the peaceful coexistence of the many religious groups that live there in close proximity. The Druze baptise their children and celebrate Christian holidays; however, the priests regularly collect money to build houses for Muslims and Druze alike.


The Barbary Figs
Rashid Boudjedra
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Two old friends find themselves side by side on the flight from Algiers to Constantine. Though bound by shared experiences from their youth, they have lived very different lives. The flight will last an hour, during which both their stories will be told, peppered by anecdotes about Algeria's struggle to release itself from the French colonial grip.


The Meritocracy Quartet
Jeffrey Lewis
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Lewis has a rich and complex relationship with American culture, upon which his writing has drawn as deeply as it has influenced. This quartet is a four novel series, each of which follows the leaders of American culture through a decade of their lives, thereby tracing the very substance of America's contemporary history through its unfolding.


Almost Like Spring
Alex Capus
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As 1933 draws to a close, the pair arrive in Basel from Wuppertal, Germany. Rebels on the run, they are searching for an escape from the confines of a callously regimented society left impoverished by the Depression and the onset of Nazi power.


The Red Queen
Philippa Gregory
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Ascension to Death
Mamdouh Azzam
Condition: New
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Originally published in 1987, Ascension to Death is a heartbreaking love story set in the conservative Druze region of southern Syria. It recounts the story of Salma, an orphan girl, who falls in love with a boy from her village but is forced into an arranged marriage.


Home for Christmas: The perfect book to curl up with this winter, in partnership with Battersea Dogs and Cats Home
Florence McNicoll
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The second novel in a heartwarming new fiction series set in partnership with Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.


Monkfish Moon
Romesh Gunesekera
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Stunning new edition of Romesh Gunesekera's highly acclaimed short story collection, redesigned as part of Granta's publication of the author's backlist.


Freight Dogs
Giles Foden
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From the acclaimed author of The Last King Of Scotland, Freight Dogs explores the individual consequences of Africa's 'Great War', distilling a world-shaking conflict into the unputdownable story of one man's life.


The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
Robert Hillman
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He does his best on the farm - he milks the cows, harvests the apples, looks after the sheep - but Tom's been lonely since his wife Trudy left, taking little Peter with her to go join the holy rollers.

Enter Hannah Babel, quixotic smalltown bookseller: the second Jew - and the most vivid person - Tom has ever met.


The Consolation of Maps
Thomas Bourke
Condition: New
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An exquisite novel set in Japan, America and Florence, about learning to read people and understanding the past, reminiscent of the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro


The Book of Chocolate Saints
Jeet Thayil
Condition: New
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The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both.


The Trial
Franz Kafka
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"The Trial" tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Like Kafka's two other novels, "The Trial" was never completed, although it does include a chapter which appears to bring ...


Half of Paradise
James Lee Burke
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A mesmerising novel set in the Louisiana heartland from award-winning author James Lee Burke.


Johnny Come Home
Jake Arnott
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'Hypnotic, feverish and altogether wonderful' (Guardian) - the author of the bestselling Long Firm trilogy turns his eye on the anarchic 1970s.


Melmoth
Sarah Perry
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From the author of the bestselling The Essex Serpent comes a darkly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times.


Outrageous Horizon
Adrien Bosc
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Two hundred and fifty members of a new society, floating, stranded at sea, heading for unknown lands, fleeing a Europe in flames.


The Mummy Lessons: The laugh-out-loud novel for all exhausted parents and parents-to-be
Helen Wallen
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The award winning 'Just A Normal Mummy' blogger returns with another frank and hilarious novel on those first twelve months of motherhood.


The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin
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'A haunting and epic debut with shades of Steinbeck' [GRAZIA] about a makeshift family in the untamed American West. Includes Reading Group Notes.


Meanwhile in Dopamine City: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020
DBC Pierre
Condition: New
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little, a humane, deeply empathetic starburst of a satire; the most moving and entertaining exaggeration of the fearful nightmare of trying to raise a kid now.

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