Region: Britain (75 Listed volumes)
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Joseph O’Connor
My Father’s House
Book 1 of the Rome Escape Line TrilogyFrom the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican -
Andrew Miller
The Slowworm’s Song
From Costa Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller comes a tender tale of guilt, trust, and a father's yearning to atone. A harmless-looking letter drops onto the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexploded bomb. It is a summons to an inquiry in... -
Jonathan Coe
Mr. Wilder and Me
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ROTTERS’ CLUB AND MIDDLE ENGLAND In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working... -
Veronica Cossanteli
The Marvelous Land of Snergs
A funny, quirky, brand-new story based on E.A. Wyke-Smith’s classic, the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, featuring wonderful illustrations from Melissa Castrillón. -
Christopher Prendergast
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime’s reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. -
David Keenan
Xstabeth
A transcendent love letter to literature and music, Xstabeth is an exciting new work from a writer who, book-by-book, is rewriting the rules of contemporary fiction. Aneliya’s father dreams of becoming a great musician but his naivete and his unfashionable music suggest he... -
Gideon Defoe
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. “Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once... -
Joan Haig
Tiger Skin Rug
Shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize 2021 Two homesick Indian boys and their new Scottish friend join a magical tiger on a journey across continents. Lal and his brother Dilip miss home. They don’t like drizzle, midges, or the tiger skin rug in their creepy new house. All...
