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Small Island
Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the definitive fictional account of the
€ 11,⁹⁵
Cloud Atlas
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004Winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the YearSouls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .
Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and r
€ 13,³⁰
The Last Samurai
'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATTEleven-ye
€ 13,³⁰
Modern Lovers
** 'It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible.' Liane Moriarty **
From the New York Times Bestselling author of The Vacationers, Emma Straub brings us a sharply observed
€ 11,⁹⁵
Convenience Store Woman
Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.
Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married. But Ke
€ 11,⁹⁵
Atomised
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else.

Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society.
€ 13,³⁰
Invisible Man
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man.

'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.'
€ 13,⁵⁰
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby's internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?
Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Lau
€ 11,⁹⁵
My Dark Vanessa
An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller 'A package of dynamite' Stephen King 'Powerful, compulsive, brilliant' Marian Keyes 'Takes a grip on the reader and never lets go' Hilary Mantel An era-defining novel about the
€ 17,³⁰
The Stranger Diaries
THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. THE RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK. 'Utterly bewitching ...
a pitch-perfect modern Gothic' AJ FINN, author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOWA dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the endin
€ 10,⁶⁵
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic. 'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed f
€ 11,⁹⁵
The Book Of Salt
In a compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indochina to Paris, the Vietnamese cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his own fascinating story-Paris, 1934. Binh has accompanied his employers
€ 13,³⁰