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Hardback. Condición: Good. Welcome to the darkest timeline . . . the UK debut of one of America's most gifted young writers is a chilling fable about love in an age when even our darkest desires (not to mention our novels) have become vulnerable to malware.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards, Book of the Year ? Discover AwardLonglisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas PrizeWinner of a 2022 Somerset Maugham AwardCabbages . . . The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that?s where we put the heroin . . . There?s a stash of heroin waiting to be imported, and no one seems sure what to do with it . . . But Ayla?s a gardener, and she has a plan.Offering a fresh and funny take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice: not only in McDonald's queues and men?s clubs, but in spotless living rooms and whispering kitchens. Spanning three generations, this is the story of the women who keep their family ? and their family business ? afloat, juggling everything from police surveillance to trickier questions of community, belonging and love.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards, Book of the Year ? Discover AwardLonglisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas PrizeWinner of a 2022 Somerset Maugham AwardCabbages . . . The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that?s where we put the heroin . . . There?s a stash of heroin waiting to be imported, and no one seems sure what to do with it . . . But Ayla?s a gardener, and she has a plan.Offering a fresh and funny take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice: not only in McDonald's queues and men?s clubs, but in spotless living rooms and whispering kitchens. Spanning three generations, this is the story of the women who keep their family ? and their family business ? afloat, juggling everything from police surveillance to trickier questions of community, belonging and love.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Yuri Herreras novel, a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Bolano and Chandler, is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to the bodies that violence touches.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. An electric tale of apocalypse, sex and time travel from one of the Caribbeans most extraordinary cultural figures.

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before widely available, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasia about the joys and terrors of a life devoted to resisting the degradations of conformism. It tells the story of Cressida Hazeborough and her friend Vivien, two mordantly intelligent young women trying to find their ways in a misty, pre-Depression Britain. The pair have little patience for the company of the marriageable men they are meant to endure, yet neither do they possess the means to live as they might wish: together, and apart from the demands of modern society. What?s a girl to do?Having left school and taken the sorts of London job available to women of their age and station, remarkable news arrives: a great foreign poet, playwright, athlete, and soldier named Virgilio Vittore has successfully conquered the tiny country of Trino, on the Adriatic Sea, and is now governing it ?according to the laws of music? Could this new utopia be a refuge for Cressida and Vivien, and indeed all who seek a life less ordinary? Or should the women, having arrived in this chaotic land, where love, life, and politics must submit to the rules of the beautiful, take to heart the advice of the novel?s title?Snobbish yet humane, reactionary yet camp, strait-laced yet queer, old-fashioned yet radical, Go Back at Once reveals Robert Aickman as a master not only of the ?strange story?, but a satirist deserving of a place alongside the mischievous and venomous greats of the inter-war canon: Firbank, Compton-Burnett, Waugh, Powell.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. A writer attempts to complete the novel for which he has been awarded a big fat Guggenheim grant, though for a long time he succeeds mainly in procrastinating ? getting an electrician to rewire his living room so he can reposition his computer, buying an armchair, or rather, two: ?In one, you can?t possibly read: it?s uncomfortable and your back ends up crooked and sore. In the other, you can?t possibly relax: the hard backrest means you have to sit up straight and pay attention, which makes it ideal if you want to read.? Insomniacs, romantics and anyone who?s ever written (or failed to write) will fall in love with this compelling masterpiece told by a true original, with all his infuriating faults, charming wit and intriguing musings.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Yuri Herreras novel, a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Bolano and Chandler, is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to the bodies that violence touches.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle?s world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa is already gone. Standards, he grumbles, are in decline, so bad-tempered, conservative Tearle embarks on a grandiose plan to enlighten his fellow citizens. The results are disastrous, hilarious and poignant. A classic novel about the post-apartheid era, brimming with surprising perspectives, urban satire, riotous imagery and outrageous wordplay. Vladislavi??s tour de force was awarded the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. From the author of the acclaimed Pity the Best, a collection of new stories plumbing the depths of American laughter and evil.

Paperback. Condición: Good. A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgangers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead. …

Hardback. Condición: Good. Screenwriter (Unsane) and bass player (Guided by Voices) James Greer returns to the literary fold with a hilarious novel about the perils and pleasures of promiscuous translation.

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Hardback. Condición: Good. At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the centre of everyone?s attention. She wants Hanne, or wants to be her, or to sully her, or destroy her, or consume her, or some confusion of all the above. Since she?s an artist, she will use art to get closer to Hanne, beginning a series of paintings with her new muse as model.Your Love Is Not Good stuffs queer explosive into the cracks between identity and aspiration, between desire and art, and revels in the raining debris.…

Hardback. Condición: Fair. At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the centre of everyone?s attention. She wants Hanne, or wants to be her, or to sully her, or destroy her, or consume her, or some confusion of all the above. Since she?s an artist, she will use art to get closer to Hanne, beginning a series of paintings with her new muse as model.Your Love Is Not Good stuffs queer explosive into the cracks between identity and aspiration, between desire and art, and revels in the raining debris.…

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Hardback. Condición: Good. Welcome to the darkest timeline . . . the UK debut of one of America's most gifted young writers is a chilling fable about love in an age when even our darkest desires (not to mention our novels) have become vulnerable to malware.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards, Book of the Year ? Discover AwardLonglisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas PrizeWinner of a 2022 Somerset Maugham AwardCabbages . . . The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that?s where we put the heroin . . . There?s a stash of heroin waiting to be imported, and no one seems sure what to do with it . . . But Ayla?s a gardener, and she has a plan.Offering a fresh and funny take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice: not only in McDonald's queues and men?s clubs, but in spotless living rooms and whispering kitchens. Spanning three generations, this is the story of the women who keep their family ? and their family business ? afloat, juggling everything from police surveillance to trickier questions of community, belonging and love.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards, Book of the Year ? Discover AwardLonglisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas PrizeWinner of a 2022 Somerset Maugham AwardCabbages . . . The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that?s where we put the heroin . . . There?s a stash of heroin waiting to be imported, and no one seems sure what to do with it . . . But Ayla?s a gardener, and she has a plan.Offering a fresh and funny take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice: not only in McDonald's queues and men?s clubs, but in spotless living rooms and whispering kitchens. Spanning three generations, this is the story of the women who keep their family ? and their family business ? afloat, juggling everything from police surveillance to trickier questions of community, belonging and love.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in hearts and institutions alike @font-face.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Winner of the 2016 Herralde Prize?I don?t expect anyone to believe me,? warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he?s kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin?a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as ?Projects? and to others as ?dickhead??who is gagged and tied to a chair. The thugs say Juan Pablo must work for them. His mission? To make Laia, the daughter of a corrupt politician, fall in love with him. He accepts. . . . though not before the crime boss has forced him at gunpoint into a discussion on the limits of humour in literature. Part campus novel, part gangster thriller, I Don?t Expect Anyone to Believe Me is Villalobos at his best. Exuberantly foul-mouthed and intellectually agile, this hugely entertaining novel finds the light side of difficult subjects?immigration, corruption, family loyalty and love?in a world where the difference between comedy and tragedy depends entirely on who?s telling the joke.Praise for Juan Pablo Villalobos:'Funny, convincing, appalling.a punch-packer.' Ali Smith'Savagely funny.' Lili Wright, New York Times.…

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