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Paddle
A Long Way around Ireland |
| by Jasper Winn |
‘A fantastic voyage. Mad, inspiring, funny and a great read’. Nick Crane
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| One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak all the way around Ireland. Little did he know that he’d picked the worst summer in living memory… |
| A mesmerising and quietly epic memoir by a brilliant new travel writer. |
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Telescope |
| by Jonathan Buckley |
‘Jonathan Buckley’s style has a surprising humanity and patience that verges on the feminine ... the result is brave, unsettling and brilliant.’ The Independent
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| A startlingly original and moving novel; a glimpse of the world as seen by a connoisseur of vicarious experience. |
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There's No Home |
| by Alexander Baron |
Rediscovering a British Captain Correlli…
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| ‘An unqualified masterpiece … as acute a study of the psychology of war as fiction offers us.’ The Guardian |
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Patronage |
| by Maria Edgeworth |
One of the most eagerly anticipated novels of Jane Austen’s day. It sold out within hours of publication.
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Maria Edgeworth set out to write an adventurous soap opera about the trials and fortunes of two neighbouring families in Regency England.
She ended with a hugely entertaining critique of how young men made their way in society. |
| Introduced by John Mullan, Professor of English at University College. |
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| The Dangerous Journey |
by Tove Jansson
New translation by Sophie Hannah |
Celebrating 60 years of the Moomins in English. |
| A delightful picture book in rhyme that offers the very last glimpse of Moomin Valley as drawn by Jansson herself. |
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Helen |
| by Maria Edgeworth |
She was the bestselling author of Regency England. She was admired by Jane Austen whose fame she eclipsed. John Ruskin declared her books, “The most re-readable in existence”.
Isn’t it time to read Maria Edgeworth? |
Helen was the last and most psychologically powerful novel by Jane Austen’s Greatest rival. |
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| Travelling Light |
| by Tove Jansson |
"How lightly Jansson’s fiction traverses the wide world. How profoundly it implicates us." ALI SMITH |
| The restlessness and shadows that intrude upon a summer are revealed in this surprising new collection. |
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| Contact |
| by Jonathan Buckley |
| "A riveting and edgy read – the dialogue and scene-setting are spot on." The Bookseller |
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The Post Office Girl |
| by Stefan Zweig |
“Just finished reading this beautiful, fast-moving, tragic novel. Written in the 1930s...it will haunt me for a long while” Neil Tennant, The Pet Shop Boys |
| Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in Zweig’s posthumous classic, available here in English for the first time. |
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