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24 For 3 Jennie Walker  hbk £9.99
Absolution Olaf Olafsson
According To Queeney Beryl Bainbridge Dr Johnson's blighted love from Mrs Thrale, narrated by her daughterpbk £6.99
Afterwards Rachel Seiffert hbk £14.99pbk £7.99
Agape Agape William Gaddis et al A brilliant posthumous novel in which a dying man tries desperately to explain his obsession with player pianos (pianolas to you and me)pbk £7.99
All Souls Javier Marías Marias's reputation in Britain is at last catching up with his fame on the mainland. This book, set in Oxford, is perhaps the one to start withpbk £7.99
The Alphonse Courrier Affair Marta Morazzoni pbk £6.99
Amaryllis Night and Day Russell Hoban pbk £6.99
Angelica's Grotto Russell Hoban pbk £6.99
Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje pbk £7.99
Any Human Heart William Boyd Told in diary form (and including an index), this compulsively readable novel follows the life of a minor British writer from the last century. Hugely entertainingpbk £7.99
Are They Funny, Are They Dead? Marjorie-Ann Watts pbk £7.99
Armadillo William Boyd pbk £7.99
Atonement Ian McEwan pbk £7.99
Austerlitz W G Sebald The dreamlike story of an architect, brought from Germany to England on a kindertransport in 1939, in search of his familypbk £8.99
The Bay Of Angels Anita Brookner pbk £9.99
Be Near Me Andrew O'Hagan hbk £16.99pbk £7.99
The Bear Boy Cynthia Ozick pbk £7.99
The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald This exquisite, terse comedy, set in Moscow in 1913pbk £7.99
Bel Canto Ann Patchett Entertaining and often hilarious, this lively novel, which tells the story of a group of international hostages and their South American captors, won the 2002 Orange Prize For Fictionpbk £7.99
The Bequest John de Falbe hbk £15.99pbk £7.99
Between Each Breath Adam Thorpe pbk £7.99
The Big House Helena McEwen A fine first novel set against the backdrop of a childhood in Scotlandhbk £12.99pbk £6.99
The Blackwater Lightship Colm Tóibín Shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, and also for the IMPAC awardpbk £7.99
Blue Afternoon William Boyd pbk £7.99
The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald Based on the life of the poet Novalis, this is arguably her best novelpbk £7.99
Blue Rondo John Lawton pbk £6.99
The Blue Tango Eoin McNamee pbk £7.99
The Book Of The Heathen Robert Edric A terrifying masterpiece set in West Africa in 1897pbk £6.99
Brazzaville Beach William Boyd pbk £7.99
The Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster pbk £8.99
The Brothers Carburi Petrie Harbouri hbk £16.99
The Carpenter's Pencil Manuel Rivas pbk £7.99
The Clearing Tim Gautreaux A mesmerising first novel, set against the backdrop of a brutal sawmill in Louisianapbk £7.99
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell This is an extraordinary stylistic and imaginative whirlwind of a novel, reaching from the C19th to far into the future. Our view of its brilliance is not, of course, influenced by a reference to "the sage John Sandoe's of Chelsea"pbk £7.99
The Collected Stories Richard Yates hbk £17.99pbk £12
The Colour Rose Tremain pbk £7.99
Come Dance With Me Russell Hoban hbk £15.99pbk £7.99
The Constant Gardener John Le Carré hbk £16.99pbk £7.99
Conversations In Bolzano Sándor Márai Venice, 1758. Casanova has just escaped from prison. "[T]here is nothing quite as dangerous as a man who will not yield to despotism." A glorious novel about love and betrayal from the author of the hugely successful 'Embers'
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen This astounding feat of writing achieves the alchemy of making you love characters even as their faults are being anatomised with remorseless honestypbk £8.99
Dancer Colum McCann A dazzling novel based on the life of Nureyevpbk £6.99
The Danube Testament Ingrid Mann pbk £11.99
Dark Back Of Time Javier Marías hbk £15.99pbk £7.99
Death And The Penguin Andrey Kurkov A black comedy about an obituary writer in Kiev who has a penguinpbk £7.99
Death Of The Body C K Stead A wonderful novel by a little-known writer. The narrator is a philandering philosopher with a particular interest in the mind/body question
Disgrace J M Coetzee pbk £7.99
Divisadero Michael Ondaatje hbk £17.99pbk £7.99
Dreaming Iris John de Falbe pbk £11
Dressing Up For The Carnival Carol Shields From the author of the acclaimed 'Stone Diaries' and 'Larry's Party'pbk £6.99
Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess A dazzling novel drawing in major characters and events of the twentieth century- Unavailable
Eclipse John Banville Introverted tale of an unhappy actorpbk £7.99
Embers Sándor Márai Written in 1942; translated into English almost 60 years later. Two old friends meet in a Carpathian castle and remember the woman they both loved decades before. A subtle, wistful, wise novel, by a neglected Hungarian masterpbk £8.99
The Emigrants W G Sebald pbk £8.99
The End Of Freddy Peter Pistanek hbk £13.99
English Passengers Matthew Kneale An excellent novel about a Yorkshire parson looking for The Garden Of Eden in Tasmania in 1857pbk £7.99
An Equal Music Vikram Seth This novel depicts a passion for music with a brilliance that must be unique in literature, while the surrounding love story is equally compellingpbk £7.99
Fasting, Feasting Anita Desai pbk £7.99
Father, Father, Burning Bright Alan Bennett
Fatima's Scarf David Caute Sparkling satire on the Rushdie affair
The Feast Of The Goat Mario Vargas Llosa pbk £7.99
A Few Short Notes On Tropical Butterflies John Murray
Fingersmith Sarah Waters Sue Trinder, an orphan in a gang of East End thieves, is persuaded to pose as a lady's maid in order to swindle an apparently gullible heiress. A dazzling and terrifically enjoyable take on the Victorian melodramapbk £7.99
The Forger Paul Watkins pbk £5.99
Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester An epic novel of Hong Kong over 70 yearspbk £7.99
Gardener To The King Frédéric Richaud A fable about Louis XIV and his gardener
Gathering The Water Robert Edric - Unavailablepbk £7.99pbk £0
Gerontius James Hamilton-Paterson
Ghostwritten David Mitchell pbk £7.99
Gilead Marilynne Robinson pbk £7.99
The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson hbk £16.99
The Glass Night John de Falbe
The Glass Night John de Falbe pbk £10
A Good Man in Africa William Boyd pbk £7.99
A Good Place To Die James Buchan An excellent literary thriller, set in revolutionary Iranpbk £6.99
The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard pbk £7.99
The Greatest Sorrow Keith Ovenden The narrator of this lean and highly accomplished novel is an academic writing Herzen's life.
Half In Love Justin Cartwright The thoughtful and compelling tale of a love affair between a politician and an actress
Havoc, In Its Third Year Ronan Bennett An absorbing political and religious thriller set in England of the 1630shbk £16.99pbk £7.99
Headlong Michael Frayn A great romp of a novel which is a must for art-lovers, shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prizepbk £7.99
A Heart So White Javier Marías The narrator's new marriage coincides with his growing fascination with his taciturn father's past. As more about the latter comes to light, the reader becomes aware that incidents in the narrator's own life seem to echo those a generation before. Finalpbk £6.99
Heartburn Nora Ephron This wonderfully witty roman à clef caused a sensation in Washington on its original publicationpbk £7.99
Her Name Was Lola Russell Hoban hbk £15.99pbk £6.99
His Illegal Self Peter Carey hbk £16.99pbk £7.99
History Play: The Lives And After-Life Of Christopher Marlowe Rodney Bolt Part biography, part fiction, this amazing book takes the hypothesis that Shakespeare's plays were written by Marlowe and runs with it. While not seriously (re)proposing this old idea as the truth, he offers a challenge to the very idea of fixed truth in hbk £8.99
Home Marilynne Robinson hbk £16.99
The Honourable Schoolboy John Le Carré hbk £17.99- Unavailable
Hotel Du Lac Anita Brookner The award-winning story of one woman's emotional disappointmentspbk £7.99
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson pbk £7.99
The Human Stain Philip Roth pbk £7.99
The Hunters: Two Short Novels Claire Messud A brace of novellas. The first of these, about a cleaning-woman in Toronto, is reckoned by two of us here to be as near perfect a work of fiction as can bepbk £7.99
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith pbk £7.99
The Idea Of Perfection Kate Grenville Winner of the Orange Prize 2001pbk £7.99
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor A terrible event shatters the calm of an ordinary street. A poetic, haunting, and extremely powerful first novelpbk £7.99
In Desolate Heaven Robert Edric pbk £6.99
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin hbk £14.99
In The Absence Of Men Philippe Besson In 1916, Vincent de L'Etoile, who is as old as the century, is introduced to a famous writer, with whom he becomes friends. At the same time, he embarks on a passionate affair with Arthur, a young soldier on leave… A great success on publication in Franpbk £7.99
Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller A dazzling novel, turning on a beautifully simple central idea: a man who cannot feel pain. Set in the C18th, it is the story of a boy who starts as a fairground freak and goes on to become a physician on a mission to the court of Catherine The Greatpbk £7.99
Islands Dan Sleigh
Journey By Moonlight Antal Szerb pbk £7.99
The Journey Home Olaf Olafsson pbk £7.99
Kalimantaan C S Godshalk This is a truly brilliant first novel about the white rajahs in 19th Century Borneopbk £7.99
The Kingdom Of Ashes Robert Edric hbk £16.99pbk £7.99
The Last Life Claire Messud A brilliant, powerful novelpbk £7.99
The Last Of The Savages Jay McInerney
The Leopard Tomasi di Lampedusa hbk £9.99pbk £6.99pbk £8.99
The Little Friend Donna Tartt hbk £16.99pbk £7.99
The Love Of Stones Tobias Hill Superb prose, and an entertaining story to boot!pbk £7.99
Love, etc. Julian Barnes A sequel to 'Talking It Over'pbk £7.99
Loving Monsters James Hamilton-Paterson pbk £6.99
Man In The Dark Paul Auster hbk £14.99
Mansfield C K Stead The great Stead's new novel spans 3 years in the life of Katherine Mansfield during WW1pbk £7.99
Mariana Monica Dickens, introduction by Harriet Lane A far from sentimental fictional take on her own childhoodpbk £10
The Maytrees Annie Dillard hbk £12.99- Unavailable
The Maze Panos Karnezis First novel by the author of the acclaimed collection of short stories, 'Little Infamies'. Set in Anatoliahbk £12.99pbk £7.99
The Means Of Escape Penelope Fitzgerald Short storiespbk £6.99
Mercy Alexander: A Novel George Tiffin A tough, elegant thrillerpbk £6.99
The Minotaur Barbara Vine pbk £7.99
Miss Garnet's Angel Salley Vickers A retired schoolteacher goes to Venice. This subtle book has been much enjoyed by us and by many of our customerspbk £7.99
Moldavian Pimp Edgardo Cozarinsky hbk £12.99pbk £7.99
Mr Darwin's Shooter Roger McDonald This excellent novel tells the story of Syms Covington, Darwin's Episcopalian servantpbk £12
My Tango With Barbara Strozzi Russell Hoban pbk £10.99- Unavailable
Nat Tate - An American Artist: 1928 -1960 William Boyd Plausible portrait of an artist who could so easily have existed…hbk £9.95
New Confessions William Boyd pbk £7.99
No Great Mischief Alistair MacLeod pbk £7.99
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami A vast success in the author's native Japanhbk £7.99
Novel On Yellow Paper Stevie Smith pbk £8.99
number9dream David Mitchell Lively and challenging fictionpbk £7.99
An Operational Necessity Gwyn Griffin The gripping tale of the sinking of a French freighter by a U-boat, and also of its aftermath
The Other Side Of You Salley Vickers pbk £7.99
Our Fathers Andrew O'Hagan Shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prizepbk £7.99
The Painter of Signs R K Narayan pbk £7.99
Peacetime Robert Edric Summer 1946. Shockwaves from the War reach an English villagepbk £6.99
Penguin Lost Andrey Kurkov The sequel to the hilarious 'Death And The Penguin'pbk £10.99pbk £7.99
The People's Act Of Love James Meek pbk £7.99
The Plot Against America Philip Roth What would have happened if Charles A Lindbergh had been elected to the US Presidency in 1940, on an anti-war ticket? This is a stunning novel based on a counterfactual that has a sharp bearing on recent eventshbk £16.99pbk £7.99
Quarantine Jim Crace Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Booker shortlistedpbk £8.99
Quick Bright Things Keith Ovenden
Ravelstein Saul Bellow pbk £7.99
Redemption Falls Joseph O'Connor pbk £7.99
René Leys Victor Segalen René Leys befriends the narrator in Peking as the Chinese Empire collapses. At only 19, he is chief of the Palace's secret police and lover of the Dowager Empress.pbk £5.95
Reunion Fred Uhlman pbk £6.99
Riddley Walker Russell Hoban pbk £6.99
The Rings Of Saturn W G Sebald This unclassifiable book takes wing on a tour of East Anglia, touching on silkworms, Bruges, Bosnia, Chateaubriand and much more… It is a book about decadence. It has rightly been hailed as a masterpiece.pbk £7.99
Rivers Of Babylon Peter Pistanek hbk £12.99
The Rotters' Club Jonathan Coe The chronicle of four friends at school in the 1970spbk £7.99
The Rules Of Perspective Adam Thorpe hbk £12.99pbk £7.99
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen Paul Torday hbk £12.99pbk £7.99
Sarratt And The Draper Of Watford John Le Carré And other unlikely stories about Sarratt from international authors
Scenes From The Life Of A Best-Selling Author Michael Krüger Does excessive reading lead to excessive drinking? Discuss. These short stories, fiercely witty, are set in the world of books and publishinghbk £10pbk £6.99
Searching For Intruders Stephen Raleigh Byler A novel in storieshbk £16.95
The Secret History Of Modernism: A Novel C K Stead pbk £6.99
Seven Lies James Lasdun hbk £14.99pbk £7.99
The Siren & Selected Writings Tomasi di Lampedusa, David Gilmour (ed)
Sister Hollywood C K Stead
Slightly Foxed No 15, Autumn 2007 John de Falbe pbk £8
Smiley's People John Le Carré pbk £7.99
Snow Orhan Pamuk This new political thriller set in Eastern Turkey confirms Pamuk’s place in the front rank of international contemporary novelistspbk £8.99
Snowleg Nicholas Shakespeare pbk £7.99
So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell pbk £6.99
The Solitude Of Thomas Cave Georgina Harding hbk £12.99pbk £7.99
Someone At A Distance Dorothy Whipple, introduction by Nina Bawden We have all delighted in this unjustly forgotten 1953 novel. A beautifully written, compelling tale of unsuitable lovepbk £12
The Sorrows Of An American Siri Hustvedt hbk £16.99pbk £7.99
Spies Michael Frayn Set in World War II: a boy decides that his mother must be a spypbk £7.99
Surviving Allan Massie pbk £10
Tales Of Soldiers And Civilians And Other Stories Ambrose Bierce Witty, irreverent tales of war and of the supernaturalpbk £8.99
The Tango Singer Tomas Eloy Martinez hbk £12.99pbk £7.99
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John Le Carré hbk £17.99pbk £7.99
To The Last City Colin Thubron A novel set in the Peruvian Andespbk £7.99
Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me Javier Marías pbk £8.99
Travelling With Djinns Jamal Mahjoub Yasin was born in the Sudan to an Arab father and an English mother. Driving from Denmark to Spain with his son, he reflects on his lack of national identity and the breakdown of his marriage to an Englishwoman. This is a powerful novel about not belonginpbk £6.99
True History Of The Kelly Gang Peter Carey pbk £8.99
Two Jews On A Train: Stories From The Old Country And The New Adam Biro, translated by Catherine Tihanyi hbk £11.50
The Untouchable John Banville pbk £7.99
The Upright Piano Player David Abbott hbk £14.99
Vertigo W G Sebald The book in which this unique and important writer found his voicepbk £8.99
The Visit Of The Royal Physician Per Olov Enquist By 1770, the mad Danish king's doctor was absolute ruler of Denmark. Within two years - after issuing 632 decrees in accordance with Enlightenment principles, and cuckolding the king - he was executed. Published to international acclaim, a thrilling novehbk £16.99pbk £7.99
Voyage Along The Horizon Javier Marías, translated by Kristina Cordero pbk £10.99
The Water-Breather Ben Faccini pbk £6.99
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent James Meek hbk £16.99pbk £7.99
We, The Drowned Carsten Jensen hbk £17.99
When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro pbk £7.99
White Teeth Zadie Smith pbk £7.99
Wide Open Nicola Barker Among the clapboard and the litter of the Isle Of Sheppey in the Thames estuary, a group of residents live with unpalatable truths about their pasts. A strange and brilliant novelpbk £6.99
William - An Englishman Cicely Hamilton, introduction by Nicola Beauman An unusual, angry novel from 1919, reflecting on the recent warpbk £12
The Winter Vault Anne Michaels hbk £16.99
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel hbk £18.99
Wolfy And The Strudelbakers Zvi Jagendorf pbk £8.99
The Wooden Village Peter Pistanek hbk £11.99
The Yacoubian Building Alaa Al Aswany hbk £14.99pbk £7.99
Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever And Spear Javier Marías pbk £7.99
Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance And Dream Javier Marías pbk £7.99
Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow And Farewell Javier Marías hbk £18.99
Youth J M Coetzee A young man leaves 1950s South Africa for London, hoping to become a Great Writer. Naturally, he ends up working for IBM… A superb, subtle and often funny portrayal of youth and its illusions, with more than a hint of autobiography about ithbk £14.99pbk £7.99
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