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Our Reviews
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 daughter pbk £6.99
Afterwards Rachel Seiffert   hbk £14.99 pbk £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 with pbk £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 entertaining pbk £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 family pbk £8.99
The Bay Of Angels Anita Brookner   pbk £9.99
Be Near Me Andrew O'Hagan   hbk £16.99 pbk £7.99
The Bear Boy Cynthia Ozick   pbk £7.99
The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald   This exquisite, terse comedy, set in Moscow in 1913 pbk £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 Fiction pbk £7.99
The Bequest John de Falbe   hbk £15.99 pbk £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 Scotland hbk £12.99 pbk £6.99
The Blackwater Lightship Colm Tóibín   Shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, and also for the IMPAC award pbk £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 novel pbk £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 1897 pbk £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 Louisiana pbk £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 £17.99 pbk £12
The Colour Rose Tremain   pbk £7.99
Come Dance With Me Russell Hoban   hbk £15.99 pbk £7.99
The Constant Gardener John Le Carré   hbk £16.99 pbk £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 honesty pbk £8.99
Dancer Colum McCann   A dazzling novel based on the life of Nureyev pbk £6.99
The Danube Testament Ingrid Mann   pbk £11.99
Dark Back Of Time Javier Marías   hbk £15.99 pbk £7.99
Death And The Penguin Andrey Kurkov   A black comedy about an obituary writer in Kiev who has a penguin pbk £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 £17.99 pbk £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 actor pbk £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 master pbk £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 1857 pbk £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 compelling pbk £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 melodrama pbk £7.99
The Forger Paul Watkins   pbk £5.99
Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester   An epic novel of Hong Kong over 70 years pbk £7.99
Gardener To The King Frédéric Richaud   A fable about Louis XIV and his gardener
Gathering The Water Robert Edric   - Unavailable pbk £7.99 pbk £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 Iran pbk £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 1630s hbk £16.99 pbk £7.99
Headlong Michael Frayn   A great romp of a novel which is a must for art-lovers, shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize pbk £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. Final pbk £6.99
Heartburn Nora Ephron   This wonderfully witty roman à clef caused a sensation in Washington on its original publication pbk £7.99
Her Name Was Lola Russell Hoban   hbk £15.99 pbk £6.99
His Illegal Self Peter Carey   hbk £16.99 pbk £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 disappointments pbk £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 be pbk £7.99
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith   pbk £7.99
The Idea Of Perfection Kate Grenville   Winner of the Orange Prize 2001 pbk £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 novel pbk £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 Fran pbk £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 Great pbk £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 Borneo pbk £7.99
The Kingdom Of Ashes Robert Edric   hbk £16.99 pbk £7.99
The Last Life Claire Messud   A brilliant, powerful novel pbk £7.99
The Last Of The Savages Jay McInerney  
The Leopard Tomasi di Lampedusa   hbk £9.99 pbk £6.99 pbk £8.99
The Little Friend Donna Tartt   hbk £16.99 pbk £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 WW1 pbk £7.99
Mariana Monica Dickens, introduction by Harriet Lane   A far from sentimental fictional take on her own childhood pbk £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 Anatolia hbk £12.99 pbk £7.99
The Means Of Escape Penelope Fitzgerald   Short stories pbk £6.99
Mercy Alexander: A Novel George Tiffin   A tough, elegant thriller pbk £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 customers pbk £7.99
Moldavian Pimp Edgardo Cozarinsky   hbk £12.99 pbk £7.99
Mr Darwin's Shooter Roger McDonald   This excellent novel tells the story of Syms Covington, Darwin's Episcopalian servant pbk £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 Japan hbk £7.99
Novel On Yellow Paper Stevie Smith   pbk £8.99
number9dream David Mitchell   Lively and challenging fiction pbk £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 Prize pbk £7.99
The Painter of Signs R K Narayan   pbk £7.99
Peacetime Robert Edric   Summer 1946. Shockwaves from the War reach an English village pbk £6.99
Penguin Lost Andrey Kurkov   The sequel to the hilarious 'Death And The Penguin' pbk £10.99 pbk £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 events hbk £16.99 pbk £7.99
Quarantine Jim Crace   Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Booker shortlisted pbk £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 1970s pbk £7.99
The Rules Of Perspective Adam Thorpe   hbk £12.99 pbk £7.99
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen Paul Torday   hbk £12.99 pbk £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 publishing hbk £10 pbk £6.99
Searching For Intruders Stephen Raleigh Byler   A novel in stories hbk £16.95
The Secret History Of Modernism: A Novel C K Stead   pbk £6.99
Seven Lies James Lasdun   hbk £14.99 pbk £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 novelists pbk £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 £12.99 pbk £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 love pbk £12
The Sorrows Of An American Siri Hustvedt   hbk £16.99 pbk £7.99
Spies Michael Frayn   Set in World War II: a boy decides that his mother must be a spy pbk £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 supernatural pbk £8.99
The Tango Singer Tomas Eloy Martinez   hbk £12.99 pbk £7.99
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John Le Carré   hbk £17.99 pbk £7.99
To The Last City Colin Thubron   A novel set in the Peruvian Andes pbk £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 belongin pbk £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 voice pbk £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 nove hbk £16.99 pbk £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 £16.99 pbk £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 novel pbk £6.99
William - An Englishman Cicely Hamilton, introduction by Nicola Beauman   An unusual, angry novel from 1919, reflecting on the recent war pbk £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 £14.99 pbk £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 it hbk £14.99 pbk £7.99
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