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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham beyond the blue mountains is a collection of short stories by booker prize winning author penelope livelyshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markpenelope lively lives in london"the slovenian giantess" is a condensed masterpiece' sunday times'penelope lively is a genius and this collection is a joyshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardthe fourteen warmly humorous stories in beyond the blue mountains range from the fantasy of scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtle but significant events that go to create everyday experiencesee oxfam website for delivery information read more'the fourteen brief stories in beyond the blue mountains reveal penelope lively at her most polished and perceptiveher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all beganin any circumstances, from a wedding to a christmas shopping expedition, lively finds an emotional dilemma, engaging the reader as thoroughly as if they were reading a novel and leaving them speechless' daily mailpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children
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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham city of the mind is the second novel by booker prize winning author penelope livelyshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markpenelope lively lives in londonhere too is the london of prehistory, of georgian elegance, of the blitzshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe init stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind himthere is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and constructionbut matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for london in docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his ownshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardsee oxfam website for delivery information read more'in london's changing heartland, architect matthew halland is aware of how the past and the present blend'a glorious novel' observer'the descriptions of the london blitz are achingly real' sunday telegraphpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and childrenher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all began'this is the city in which everything is simultaneous
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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigershe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markpenelope lively lives in londonshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inin , privileged misfit lorna meets the love of her lifeconsequences tells of three generations of women in their own twentieth-century times united by their shared experiences of love, pain, fate and happinessoxfam bookshop cheltenham a hugely satisfying and romantic novel, in consequences penelope lively plots the lives of three generations of twentieth-century womenfalling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, matt, she abandons her stuffy kensington existence in london and moves to a rustic cottage in somerset'a flawlessly constructed mini-epic that will delight' daily telegraph 'nourishing fare from a writer on sparkling form' daily mailpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and childrena baby, molly, is born, but the coming war takes matt - and lorna's dreams - awayshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all beganlorna's decisions and their unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first of her daughter, molly, and then her granddaughter, ruth
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the yearshortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptional i envy anyone who hasn't yet read it'daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror'independent on sundaywith this historic win for 'bring up the bodies', hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizes (her first was for 'wolf hall' in )but anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymourcromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careerbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final daysby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morean astounding literary accomplishment, 'bring up the bodies' is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the year shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptionali envy anyone who hasn't yet read it'daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror'independent on sunday with this historic win for bring up the bodies, hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizescromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careerbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymourbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final daysby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morean astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists
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Oxfam shop evesham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the yearshortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptionali envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror' independent on sundaywith this historic win for bring up the bodies, hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizescromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careerbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymourbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final daysby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morean astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham now a bbc radio 4 book at bedtime winner of the women's prize for fiction winner of the london hellenic prize shortlisted for the international dublin literary award shortlisted for the costa novel award shortlisted for the dsc prize for south asian literature longlisted for the man booker prize 'a book of the year, ' - guardian, observer, telegraph, new statesman, evening standard, new york times 'the book for our times' judges of the women's prize 'elegant and evocativeas the son of a powerful british muslim politician, eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defyis he to be a chance at love? the means of parvaiz's salvation? two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love? a contemporary reimagining of sophocles' antigone, home fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming kamila shamsie as a master storyteller of our timesafter years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in america, resuming a dream long deferreda powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' guardian isma is freehandsome and privileged, he inhabits a london worlds away from theirssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut she can't stop worrying about aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in london - or their brother, parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knewthen eamonn enters the sisters' lives
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'helen dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' daily mail 'a beautiful and inspired novel' john le carré 'secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make dunmore's stories ripple with menace and suspense' sunday times helen dunmore has published eleven novels with penguin: zennor in darkness, which won the mckitterick prize; burning bright; a spell of winter, which won the orange prize; talking to the dead; your blue-eyed boy; with your crooked heart; the siege, which was shortlisted for the whitbread novel of the year award and for the orange prize for fiction ; mourning ruby; house of orphans; counting the stars and the betrayal, which was longlisted for the man booker prizeh lawrence and his german wife, frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips londonlawrence and his german wife hiding out in cornwall during the first world waryet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escapethey befriend clare coyne, a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin, john william, who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell-shockshe is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writerinto this turmoil come dsee oxfam website for delivery information read morespring, , and war haunts the cornish coastal village of zennor: ships are being sunk by u-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy storiesoxfam bookshop cheltenham in her prize-winning first novel, zennor in darkness, helen dunmore reimagines the plight of d
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham *longlisted for the man booker prize **shortlisted for the goldsmiths prize and the gordon burn prize *'i was grippedremarkable' robert macfarlane, guardian books of the year'a novel so of this moment that you don't even realize you've waited your whole life for it' marlon jamesfor selvon, ardan and yusuf, growing up under the towers of stones estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedombut now, after the killing of a british soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safetheir friend yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque, threatening to carry his troubled brother, irfan, with itprovocative, raw, poetic yet tender, in our mad and furious city marks the arrival of a major new talent in fictionwhile the fury swirls around them, selvon and ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grimesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop harrogate longlisted for the man booker prize , longlisted for the wainwright prize , shortlisted for the gordon burn prizebut it also belongs to dead papa toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woods see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit belongs to mad pete, the grizzled artistit belongs to england's mysterious past and its confounding presentthis village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years agochimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful - a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love, lanny is the globally anticipated new novel from max porterdead papa toothwort, who is listening to them allcondition- as newnot far from london, there is a villageto families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved hereto ancient peggy, gossiping at her gate
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a major film starring brie larson, winner of the academy award for best actress and the best actress baftashortlisted for the man booker prize, the orange prize and a richard and judy book club selectionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreroom by emma donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedomthey don't have the keyhe lives with his mathey live in a single, locked roomjack and ma are prisoners
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Winner of the costa novel awardlonglisted for the man booker prize shortlisted for the goldsmiths prize 'a rare and dazzling feat of art' george saunders, author of lincoln in the bardo'mcgregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation' sarah hall, author of the wolf border'reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary - the way it's structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which jon mcgregor lets the characters breathe and age' roddy doyle, author of paddy clarke ha ha ha see oxfam website for delivery information read morean extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subsidemeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsedmidwinter in the early years of this centurythe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday lifeoxfam bookshop st albans winner of the costa novel awarda guardian book of the yearan ft book of the yeara tls book of the yeara telegraph book of the yearfrom the award-winning author of if nobody speaks of remarkable thingsthe villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet homea teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of englandreservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss
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'the eye in the door' was awarded the guardian fiction prize, while the final volume in the 'regeneration' trilogy, 'the ghost road', won the booker prize inwriting in the sunday times, peter kemp said, 'in the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly formsoxfam bookshop cheltenham set in london in , 'the eye in the door' is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of dr william rivers, billy prior, and siegfried sassoon begun in 'regeneration'at the forefront of her story, barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexualssee oxfam website for delivery information read morea sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor'
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Oxfam shop colne road longlisted for the man booker prize and the baileys women's prize for fiction home is a foreign country: they do things differently theresee oxfam website for delivery information read morein a tiny flat in west london, sixteen-year-old marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, laura, and three ancient hungarian relativesshe is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even beimprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unenglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escapeat combe abbey, a traditional english public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistakeand as a semi-hungarian londoner, who is she? in the meantime, her mother laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she'd expect back in her lifeshe isn't noticing that, at combe abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrongbut the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the costa book of the yearwinner of the walter scott prize for historical fiction winner of the independent bookshop week book award longlisted for the man booker prize 'pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the yearthen when a young indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survivehaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit insee oxfam website for delivery information read more' observerafter signing up for the us army in the s, aged barely seventeen, thomas mcnulty and his brother-in-arms, john cole, fight in the indian wars and the civil war
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award and the governor-general's award, and short-listed for the booker prize'the stone diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough daisy's life, shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novelthis is the story of daisy goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in manitoba, canada, to her death in a florida nursing home nearly ninety years later
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Oxfam shop pershore *new novel a thousand moons now available*winner of the costa book of the year winner of the walter scott prize for historical fiction winner of the independent bookshop week book award longlisted for the man booker prize 'pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the year' observer after signing up for the us army in the s, aged barely seventeen, thomas mcnulty and his brother-in-arms, john cole, fight in the indian wars and the civil warhaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit insee oxfam website for delivery information read morethen when a young indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive
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Winner of both a booker prize and pegasus prize for literature, the bone people is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerising emotional complexitythere is writing on the first page of the book see oxfam website for delivery information read moreas kerewin succumbs to simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his maori foster father joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutalityout of this unorthodox trinity keri hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where maori and european new zealand meet, clash, and sometimes mergeoxfam books & music perth in a tower on the new zealand sea lives kerewin holmes, part maori, part european, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her familyone night her solitude is disrupted by a visitora speechless, mercurial boy named simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession
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Winner of the costa novel award; longlisted for the man booker prize; shortlisted for the goldsmiths prizebinding has a slight lean, and there are light surface marks to the unclipped dust jacket, otherwise in very good clean conditionan extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subside see oxfam website for delivery information read moremidwinter in the early years of this centurythe villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet homemeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsedoxfam bookshop kingsbridge signed by author job mcgregor to the title page, without date or dedicationa teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of englandfrom the award-winning author of if nobody speaks of remarkable things, reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's lossfirst edition, first printing - indicated by the single number 1 on the copyright pagethe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life 'mcgregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation' (sarah hall, author of the wolf border')
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In he was awarded the prince of asturias prize for literaturehe has also been a finalist for the international impac dublin literary award (the book of illusions), the pen/faulkner award (the music of chance), the edgar award (city of glass), and the man booker prize ()in , he was the first recipient of the nyc literary honors in the category of fictionauthor: paul auster
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booker t & the mg's greatest hits stax sts usa nice printed motown inner sleeve vinyl excellent+ sleeve vg+ (see picture) 4catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableand the mg's pickwick records shm uk this is a reissue from the album 'green onions' vinyl nm (former library record, but only given out once and probably never played) sleeve vg+ read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikirelated) 4 wonderful records in excellent conditionour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storebar-kays soul finger volt s 417 (stax label) germany atco labels vinyl excellent sleeve excellent - 2original 1st pressingsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteand the mg's soul limbo stax sts usa vinyl excellent, towards nm sleeve vg+ 3(except for one) 1and the mg's and bar-kays (booker t
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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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Short novel, shortlisted for the booker prizecash on collection preferred, but happy to post if requiredplease message me with any questions and check out my other advertsthank you! read morehappy to consider a discounted price if multiple items purchased
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham ***longlisted for the man booker prize ******shortlisted for the costa novel award ***'an engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' roddy doylefarouk's country has been torn apart by warlampy's heart has been laid waste by chloejohn's past torments him as he nears his endfrom war-torn syria to small-town ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of homesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeach is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham longlisted for the booker prize after the upheavals of the second world war, the richardson family - sam, ellen and their young son joe - settle back to working-class life in the cumbrian town of wigtonas the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, sam and ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of joe, who grows up with his own demons to confrontyet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same againsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham now a major tv series starring martin clunes, arsher ali and art malikfrom the winner of the man booker prize for fiction , an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mysteryarthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while george remains in hard-working obscuritymost of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can provearthur and george grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century britain: arthur in shabby-genteel edinburgh, george in the vicarage of a small staffordshire villagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and racebut as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as the great wyrley outrages
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Oxfam books & music romsey the jewel in the crown is the epic award winning drama based on the booker prize winning classic novelsa tale of passion ensues as questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intriguespecial featurescommentary with art malik and tim pigott-smith on episode 1commentary with geraldine james and charles dance on episodesdirectors commentary on episode 4see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe haunting story opens during the turbulent final years of british rule in india as rioting and violence herald the granting of independence
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square mary renault's classic greek historical novels 'the alexander trilogy', the first of which was nominated for the lost man booker prize insee oxfam website for delivery information read morea fine gift for any mary renault fan or reader of greek historical fictionthis beautifully illustrated folio society edition is in excellent condition and is housed in its own boxed pictorial sleeve
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Oxfam bookshop hertford *kazuo ishiguro's new novel klara and the sun is now available to preorder*winner of the booker prize by the nobel-prize winning authorone of the bbc's '100 novels that shaped our world'in the summer of , stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his pasta contemporary classic, the remains of the day is kazuo ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a great english house, of lost causes and lost lovesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cotham hill booker prize winner  signed by the author to title page dust cover has signs of shelf wear to corners and edges but is not price-clippedpages clean, bright, and tight to an unbroken spineblack boards with silver embossed spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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