History of the Rain by Niall Williams
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find ...Show more
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
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Category: Literary Fiction
The four Flattery sisters - Olwen, Nell, Maeve and Rhona - were left to cobble together their own makeshift adolescence after the death of both their parents. Decades later, all four of them have found success in their respective fields, all of them boasting PhDs and, in Nell's case, a healthy clutch of ...Show more
Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono
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Category: Literary Fiction
A bold, unsettling, and heart-breaking story about race, belonging and the legacies of violence Salome was bullied for years and no one did a single thing to help her. One day she finally snapped. Now at just sixteen years old, she's being held in a secure unit for young offenders Salome's counsellor, ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
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Category: Literary Fiction
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
The Four by Ellie Keel
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Category: Literary Fiction
ONE SECRET COULD DESTROY THEM ALL Powerful. Sinister. Heart-wrenching. Unmissable. We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms.The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege.It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed Genevieve out ...Show more
Day One by Abigail Dean
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Category: Literary Fiction
*The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of Girl A* Stonesmere will never be the same again… When a lone gunman enters a primary school in a beautiful Lake District town, the effects of the tragedy radiate through idyllic Stonesmere with devastating consequences. At the epicentre of the ...Show more
The Armies of the Night - History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
"The Armies of the Night" chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left-hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals-came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, particip ...Show more
Creation - A Novel by Gore Vidal
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure--in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal's original manuscript--Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world.Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerx ...Show more
First Light by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
First Light begins with an ominous coincidence: the reappearance of the ancient night sky during the excavation of an astronomically aligned Neolithic grave in Dorset. A group of eccentrics -- archaeologists, astronomers, local rustics, a civil servant, and a stand-up comic -- converge on the site, dist ...Show more