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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 markthe 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 experienceher 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"the slovenian giantess" is a condensed masterpiece' sunday times'penelope lively is a genius and this collection is a joyin 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 childrenshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe insee oxfam website for delivery information read more'the fourteen brief stories in beyond the blue mountains reveal penelope lively at her most polished and perceptivepenelope lively lives in london
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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 markher 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 beganthere is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and constructionit stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him'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 children'in london's changing heartland, architect matthew halland is aware of how the past and the present blendpenelope lively lives in londonshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe insee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for london in docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his own'this is the city in which everything is simultaneoushere too is the london of prehistory, of georgian elegance, of the blitz
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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 markher 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 begana baby, molly, is born, but the coming war takes matt - and lorna's dreams - awayoxfam bookshop cheltenham a hugely satisfying and romantic novel, in consequences penelope lively plots the lives of three generations of twentieth-century womenpenelope lively lives in londonshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inconsequences tells of three generations of women in their own twentieth-century times united by their shared experiences of love, pain, fate and happinesslorna's decisions and their unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first of her daughter, molly, and then her granddaughter, ruth'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 childrenfalling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, matt, she abandons her stuffy kensington existence in london and moves to a rustic cottage in somersetin , privileged misfit lorna meets the love of her life
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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 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 wifebut 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 careeran astounding literary accomplishment, 'bring up the bodies' is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 prizesbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final daysan astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistsby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifebut 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 careersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 prizesbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final daysan astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistsby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifebut 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 careersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 evocativea powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' guardian isma is freeafter years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in america, resuming a dream long deferredthen eamonn enters the sisters' livesas the son of a powerful british muslim politician, eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehandsome and privileged, he inhabits a london worlds away from theirsis 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 timesbut 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 knew
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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 prizeinto this turmoil come dh 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-shockoxfam bookshop cheltenham in her prize-winning first novel, zennor in darkness, helen dunmore reimagines the plight of dsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writerspring, , 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 stories
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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 grippedbut 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 itsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhile the fury swirls around them, selvon and ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grimeremarkable' 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, freedomprovocative, raw, poetic yet tender, in our mad and furious city marks the arrival of a major new talent in fiction
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Oxfam bookshop harrogate longlisted for the man booker prize , longlisted for the wainwright prize , shortlisted for the gordon burn prizeit belongs to england's mysterious past and its confounding presentdead papa toothwort, who is listening to them all see oxfam website for delivery information read morecondition- as newthis village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years agoto families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved herenot far from london, there is a villageto ancient peggy, gossiping at her gatechimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful - a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love, lanny is the globally anticipated new novel from max porterit belongs to mad pete, the grizzled artistbut it also belongs to dead papa toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woods
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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 selectionthey live in a single, locked roomroom 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 keysee oxfam website for delivery information read morejack and ma are prisonershe lives with his ma
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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 subsidemidwinter in the early years of this centuryoxfam 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 thingsreservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's lossthe 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 rehearsedthe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday lifea teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of england
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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 inoxfam 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'a sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor'at the forefront of her story, barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexualssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewriting 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 forms
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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 thereimprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unenglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escapeshe is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even beshe 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 outsiderand 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 lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreat combe abbey, a traditional english public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistakein a tiny flat in west london, sixteen-year-old marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, laura, and three ancient hungarian relatives
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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 yearsee 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' 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 warhaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in
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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 prizesee 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'the stone diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century
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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 yearsee 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 survivehaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in' 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 war
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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 complexityoxfam 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 familyout 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 mergeone 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 possessionthere 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 brutality
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Winner of the costa novel award; longlisted for the man booker prize; shortlisted for the goldsmiths prize see oxfam website for delivery information read morefirst edition, first printing - indicated by the single number 1 on the copyright pageoxfam bookshop kingsbridge signed by author job mcgregor to the title page, without date or dedicationan 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 subsidethe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday lifefrom the award-winning author of if nobody speaks of remarkable things, reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's lossmeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed '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')midwinter in the early years of this centurybinding has a slight lean, and there are light surface marks to the unclipped dust jacket, otherwise in very good clean conditionthe 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 england
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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 ()author: paul austerin , he was the first recipient of the nyc literary honors in the category of fiction
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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) 4and the mg's and bar-kays (booker tare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableand the mg's soul limbo stax sts usa vinyl excellent, towards nm sleeve vg+ 3our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeand 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 morebar-kays soul finger volt s 417 (stax label) germany atco labels vinyl excellent sleeve excellent - 2(except for one) 1original 1st pressingsrelated) 4 wonderful records in excellent conditionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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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 prizehappy to consider a discounted price if multiple items purchasedcash on collection preferred, but happy to post if requiredplease message me with any questions and check out my other advertsthank you! read more
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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 wareach is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of waysjohn's past torments him as he nears his endsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom war-torn syria to small-town ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of homelampy's heart has been laid waste by chloe
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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 wigtonsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas 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 again
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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 mysterybut 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 outragesmost 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 villagearthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while george remains in hard-working obscuritysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race
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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 novelscommentary with geraldine james and charles dance on episodesthe haunting story opens during the turbulent final years of british rule in india as rioting and violence herald the granting of independencedirectors commentary on episode 4special featurescommentary with art malik and tim pigott-smith on episode 1see oxfam website for delivery information read morea tale of passion ensues as questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue
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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 morethis beautifully illustrated folio society edition is in excellent condition and is housed in its own boxed pictorial sleevea fine gift for any mary renault fan or reader of greek historical fiction
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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 pageblack boards with silver embossed spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read more dust cover has signs of shelf wear to corners and edges but is not price-clippedpages clean, bright, and tight to an unbroken spine
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