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    - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    by Rebecca Solnit
    £9.49

    This updated edition confirms Solnit's seminal work as a timeless classic on politics and change

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    by Rachel Carson
    £9.49

  • by Kate Chopin
    £6.99

    Kate Chopin's classic, an American Anna Karenina, introduced by Barbara Kingsolver

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    by Nick Cave
    £8.99

    Read by the author and with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

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    - New and Selected Poems
    by Lemn Sissay
    £8.99

    New work and old favourites from national treasure and one of Britain's most exciting poets, Lemn Sissay

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    by Alessandro Baricco
    £7.99

    A tale of lust and possession in nineteenth-century France and Japan, from the international bestseller

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    by Robin Jenkins
    £8.99

    THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL NEVER RESTED: IN THE WORLD, AND IN EVERY HUMAN BEING, IT WENT ON

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    by Charles Bukowski
    £8.99

    The autobiographical coming-of-age modern classic by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century

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    by Nan Shepherd
    £8.99

    On its 90th anniversary, the debut novel - one of the most important works of Scottish modernism - from Nan Shepherd, author of The Living Mountain and The Weatherhouse

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    - On Writers and Drinking
    by Olivia Laing
    £9.49

    One of the best reviewed books of 2013, also shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award, now available in paperback

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    by Michel Faber
    £8.99

    Now a major motion picture starring Scarlett Johansson

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    - A Memoir
    by Gil Scott-Heron
    £9.49

    The mesmerizing posthumous memoir of 'a poet and polemicist whose lyrics have inspired and galvanized generations' GQ

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    - A Personal History with Jigsaws
    by Margaret Drabble
    £9.49

    A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw and the part it plays in the patchwork of its distinguished author's life. A mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling

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    by Michel Faber
    £9.49

    Michel Faber's bestselling blockbuster set in 19th-century London

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    by Robin Jenkins
    £8.99

    The modern Scottish classic; a heartbreaking, tragic portrait of an unexpected relationship. Introduced by Andrew Marr

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    by Ismail Kadare
    £8.99

    An early masterpiece from the inaugural winner of the International Man Booker Prize.

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    by Dino Buzzati
    £8.99

    'Undoubtedly a masterpiece, a sublime book' Sunday TimesA dark and beautiful tale full of pain and longing, introduced by Tim Parks

  • by Virginia Woolf
    £7.99

    Virginia Woolf's seductive, provocative masterpiece is a whirlwind adventure through time, gender and identity. Introduced by Tilda Swinton

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    - A Journey Beneath the Surface
    by Olivia Laing
    £9.49

    'A gentle, wise and riddling book. Its prose, like the river it describes, flows intricately, unpredictably and often beautifully, carrying the fascinated reader onwards' Robert Macfarlane

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    by Philip Pullman
    £8.99

    Philip Pullman retells the story of Jesus in this explosive addition to Canongate's Myths series

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    by Caradog Prichard
    £8.99

    WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL

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    by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
    £9.49

    An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantanamo detainee.

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    - How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
    by Lewis Hyde
    £10.99

    Introduced by Margaret Atwood

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