Do we ever really know the person we live with? This is a question that has tormented Lancelot since the sudden death of his wife. The night of the accident...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Jacobs Michael
ISBN:9781847081292
Stretching for over 5,500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas...more details Format:Hardback Pages:496
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Jobey Liz
ISBN:9781847081452
Granta magazine has published some of the best writing about family relationships in the English language. Over the years its writers have dealt with the most difficult...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:432
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Marsella Anne
ISBN:9781846272233
Jane de la Rochefoucault has just brought her firstborn home to her flat in Paris and her world is in chaos. As well as the nappies, the night-time gurgling...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Schulz Kathryn
ISBN:9781846270734
Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet, we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Leve Ariel
ISBN:9781846272042
Hypochondriac, neurotic, and a habitual worrier, Ariel Leve has always looked on the blighted side of life. She counts it a good day if she manages to get out of bed. If someone should ask: what's the worst thing that can happen?...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Stern Louise
ISBN:9781847081186
Louise Stern's stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out from their peers is that they have grown up deaf. They communicate with the outside world via a complicated mixture of sign language...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Enev Deyan
ISBN:9781846272400
A boxer-turned-hitman faces an impossible mission to kill his brother; an old lady sets up a gang of her own teenage vigilantes after being mugged herself...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:228
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Moss Sarah
ISBN:9781847081384
Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenland. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse society under attack...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Baggini Julian
ISBN:9781847080837
Banish bad arguments and woolly rhetoric! More addictive mental work-outs from the author of the bestselling The Pig that Wants to be Eaten....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Rich Katherine Russell
ISBN:9781846272615
'I took up with Hindi at a time when it seemed my life had buckled out from under me... I no longer had the language to describe my own life. So I decided I'd borrow someone else's.' Having survived a serious illness and now at an impasse in her career...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:384
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Larkin Emma
ISBN:9781847081803
On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Tower Wells
ISBN:9781847081209
A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Topol Jachym
ISBN:9781846271618
Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded the country and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who run the orphanage have been driven out by the Communists...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Freeman John
ISBN:9781905881161
Whether you are starved of it or steeped in it; embarrassed by it or emboldened by it; whether you commit it or omit it you can't get away from it...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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John Freeman
ISBN:9781905881215
Packed with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Foxcroft Louise
ISBN:9781847081711
'[A] gripping study of western attitudes to women of a certain age and older ... Scared of the change, or just keen on social history? Here's your book.' - Scotsman
For over two thousand years...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Crosley Sloane
ISBN:9781846272257
What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? Or you hear the voice of your high school's long-lost queen bee from a bathroom cubicle? For Sloane Crosley...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Moore Victoria
ISBN:9781847081360
In the past few decades many of us have become foodies, but our new focus on flavour has been dominated by what we eat. In How to Drink Victoria Moore aims to redress the balance...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Rastello Luca
ISBN:9781847081544
Cocaine, formerly the preserve of the super-rich, has become democratised. The result has been an explosion in demand and a corresponding explosion in supply. Nothing...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Wieringa Tommy
ISBN:9781846271045
Small town life will never be the same again ... When Frankie Hermans emerges from a coma after 200 days, he knows his life is never going to be the same again. For a start...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Wastberg Per
ISBN:9781847081841
'I have spent too long on plants and animals. Now it is time for human beings.' This haunting novel is based on the life of Anders Sparrman...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Trueba David
ISBN:9781846272059
It's Sylvia's sixteenth birthday and her life as an adult is about to begin - not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident that leaves her leg broken. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:432
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VERHULST DIMITRI
ISBN:9781846271571
Years ago, Madame Verona and her husband built a home for themselves on a hill in a forest above a small village. There they lived in isolation...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Galeano Eduardo
ISBN:9781846272202
Eduardo Galeano is determined to forget that history is usually written by the victors. He favours the voiceless and the vulnerable. Mirrors is a narrative history of the world that condenses into its scintillating fragments radically altered visions of the landmark events on this earth...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Husum Lars
ISBN:9781846272097
When Nick is 13, he loses his parents in a car-crash. His sister, seven years his elder, is left to look after him. As he grows up, she longs to lose this brotherly millstone around her neck...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:327
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EHRENREICH BARBARA
ISBN:9781847082626
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, in order to find out how anyone survives on siz to seven dollars an hour. Ehrenreich left home...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Paling Chris
ISBN:9781846272332
Reilly is an impoverished painter who lives alone in a shabby garret, with only his unsold canvases and his faithful dog Nimrod for company. He seems destined to remain in artistic obscurity until the most influential art critic of the time begins to notice his talent...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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James Reina
ISBN:9781846271953
A retired actress teeters on the brink of a comeback in this subtle and humorous account of the painful process of growing old and the equally painful process of growing wiser....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Krasikov Sana
ISBN:9781846271786
The protagonists of Sana Krasikov's indelible stories are mostly women - some of them are new to America; some still live in the former Soviet Union...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Milner Greg
ISBN:9781847081407
From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience music. Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story of recorded music...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:464
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Baggini Julian
ISBN:9781847081285
The long-awaited re-issue of this Granta backlist classic: a collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain!...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Bunting Madeleine
ISBN:9781847081445
Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting is one of the most high-profile commentators in Britain. Her father was deeply conservative, with romantic...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Adams Lorraine
ISBN:9781846272370
A strange single-seater plane crashes in the centre of Washington DC and a scandal is brewing in the White House: two big stories that set the reporters of the capital's premier paper jockeying for scoops. As the newsroom buzzes with rivalries...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Ochsner Gina
ISBN:9781846270093
In her very dusty provincial museum of fake exhibits lovingly crafted from cardboard, wire and glue, Tanya dreams of Russian art's long colours and wonders when Yuri will stop fishing long enough to notice how she adores him...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:384
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Hollis Edward
ISBN:9781846271281
The plans are drawn up, a site is chosen, foundations are dug: a building comes into being with the expectation that it will stay put and stay for ever. But a building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:448
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Kapllani Gazmend
ISBN:9781846271502
'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania.' After spending his childhood and school years in Albania...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:161
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Baggini Julian
ISBN:9781847081551
Unpick glib aphorisms and root out cliche with the best-selling author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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EHRENREICH BARBARA
ISBN:9781847081735
In this highly original and hugely entertaining account, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the cult of positive thinking in America. She examines the impact of positive thinking on religion...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Shteyngart Gary
ISBN:9781847081032
In a very near future a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services'...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Alibhai-Brown Yasmin
ISBN:9781846270840
'Full of rich delicious prose, and even more delicious recipes, this wonderful story of one Indian family, and the memories and meals they shared over generations...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:448
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Thomson Rupert
ISBN:9781847081629
From one of the UK's greatest novelists, a dazzling and funny memoir about grief and the fragility of blood relations....more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Erpenbeck Jenny
ISBN:9781846271892
By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels...more details Format:Hardback Pages:176
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Bloom Kevin
ISBN:9781846272653
As a journalist, Kevin Bloom had witnessed and reported on the rising tide of violence in post-Apartheid South Africa. But when his own cousin was killed in a vicious random attack...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Bloom Amy
ISBN:9781847081681
A gorgeous, wise and witty new collection of stories about the complexities of love, family and friendship, from the author of Away....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192