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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the mckitterick prizeshortlisted for the east midlands book awardshortlisted for the man booker prize shortlisted for new writer of the year in the specsavers national book awardsobserver book of the year the lighthouse begins on a north sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to germany for a restorative walking holidayhe recalls his first trip to germany with his newly single fatherin the morning, futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his week-long circular walk along the rhinehe is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time aroundspending his first night in hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barmanat the end of the week, futh, sunburnt and blistered, comes to the end of his circular walk, returning to what he sees as the sanctuary of the hellhaus hotel, unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage and his ownbut the story he keeps coming back to, the person and the event affecting all others, is his mother and her abandonment of him as a boy, which left him with a void to fill, a substitute to find
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It won the booker prizeoxfam shop dumfries how late it was, how late is a stream of consciousness novel written by scottish writer james kelmansee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe glasgow-centred work is written in a working class scottish dialect, and follows sammy, a shoplifter and ex-convict
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Oxfam bookshop hertford shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsnick has a confessionyet as nick fell for masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snowssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen he worked as a high-flying british lawyer in moscow, he was seduced by masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruptiondrunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killersthat's what the russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw
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Oxfam shop evesham from the winner of the man booker prize once upon a time that was called , before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named william buelow gould, a convict in van dieman's land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safesilly billy gould, invader of australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the british empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fishsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreonce upon a time, miraculous things happened
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the man booker prize'written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime' sunday timesstill in her teenage years, nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older manconfined in her tiny flat, nazneen sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons and linings - until the radical karim steps unexpectedly into her lifeon a background of racial conflict and tension, they embark on a love affair that forces nazneen finally to take control of her fate'a brilliant evocation of sensuality' daily telegraph'a novel that will last' guardian'highly evolved and accomplished' observer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreaway from her bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in london's east endnazneen knows not a word of english, and is forced to depend on her husband
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Longlisted for the man booker prize run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with holly sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflictoxfam shop dumfries the dazzling novel from the bestselling author of cloud atlassee oxfam website for delivery information read moreover six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imaginingand as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival
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In 'reading turgenev', which was shortlisted for the booker prize, an irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older manoxfam bookshop cheltenham two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurredbut she finds unusual solace - in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for russian novelssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe second story, 'my house in umbria' tells how romantic novelist emily delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train and invents colourful pasts for her convalescent patients
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A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, the remains of the day, winner of the booker prize, contains ishiguro's now celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a great english house - within its walls can be heard ever more distinct echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across europesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham in the summer of , stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the english countryside and into his past
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the booker prize and whitbread novel of the year awardin the summer of , four people reach a turning point: alice valentine, who lies gravely ill in her west country home; her two sons, one still searching for a sense of direction, the other fighting to keep his acting career and marriage afloat; and lászló lázár, who leads a comfortable life in paris yet is plagued by his memories of the hungarian uprisingfor each, the time has come to assess what matters in life, and all will be forced to take part in an act of liberation - though not necessarily the one foreseensee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the sunday express book of the year award and short-listed for the booker prize, 'nice work' is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandingsbut, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves'a work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting' observersee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen vic wilcox, md of pringle's engineering works, meets english lecturer dr robyn penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on
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Oxfam shop worcester shortlisted for the man booker prize in see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the booker prize and the arthur c'a glorious compendium of adventure and wisdom' pico iyer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand, as ever, she displays her unique and inimitable literary style, at once funny, wise and sadranging from new york to venice, sydney to berlin, and the middle east to south africa, jan morris was a witness to such seminal moments as the eichmann trial, the first ascent of everest, the fall of the berlin wall and the handover of hong kongjan morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as venice, coronation everest, hong kong, spain, manhattan '45, a writer's world and the pax britannica trilogyoffering a tremendously perceptive and highly personal view of the world, she is as much concerned with conveying the 'feel' of these moments as the events themselvesoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells in a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, jan morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century
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Oxfam shop colne road winner of the man booker prize see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop evesham a world book night title and short listed for the booker prizein india in the mid-'s, four unlikely people find themselves thrown together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "state of internal emergency"see oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen
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Oxfam shop dumfries ***winner of the man booker prize *** forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the line, and the rest of humanity, who were nothailed as a masterpiece, richard flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truthstruggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life foreversee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the despair of a japanese pow camp on the burma death railway, surgeon dorrigo evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the man booker prize winner of the galaxy british book awards 'author of the year' 'an extraordinary and brilliant first novelbalram was born in a backwater village on the river ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller' sunday times meet balram halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murdererhe works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escapewhen he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to delhi at the wheel of a hondasee oxfam website for delivery information read moredriven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the tiger might escape his cageadiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and visionamid today's india's cockroaches and call-centres, its gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new india
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It was an instant international bestseller and won the booker prizeher sequel, the testaments, was published inoxfam books & music aberdeen early poetry written by margaret atwood and published in margaret atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essaysher classic, the handmaid's tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of donald trump, when the handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the release of the award-winning channel 4 tv seriesher novels include cat's eye, the robber bride, alias grace, the blind assassin and the maddaddam trilogysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This novel by a booker prize nominee is an engaging saga of two lovers paired for life, bound by strong family ties and firmly united by their terror of a common enemytheir adventures and the misadventures of their pups are seen through a framework of their own mythology, a world governed by rituals and traditions that began at the time of creation: firstdarka true sense of peril, a wry observance of their other enemy, man, some quixotic digressions into the lives of their offspring and avoidance of sentimentality all combine to invite comparison to watership downa familiar scenario, perhaps, but here the devoted couple is a pair of foxes--o-ha, a vixen born in the british countryside, and her second mate, camio, who, after escaping from the zoo, becomes a streetwise scavenger in the suburbscomplete with very tidy dust jacket, no tearsoxfam bookshop ludlow signed first edition, lovely copy of the cult bookher life with camio in trinity wood is equally hazardous; daily survival is difficulto-ha's first mate was killed by fox hunters and her initial litter froze to deathsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet the most ominous threat is from sabre, a vengeful ridgeback hound bent on destroying them boththe author endows his anthropomorphized characters with complex emotions, clear thinking, reasoned judgment and a shared stock of ancient clan memoriesunmarked board cover and inside pages clean and bright
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Oxfam shop colne road shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsnick has a confessionyet as nick fell for masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snowssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen he worked as a high-flying british lawyer in moscow, he was seduced by masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruptiondrunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killersthat's what the russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw
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Oxfam shop colne road named by the guardian as one of 'the 100 best novels,' and shortlisted for the booker prize, mrs palfrey at the claremont is a humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man from a 'magnificenther fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossiptogether, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the grim reaperthen one day mrs palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel'elizabeth taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar english life facing the changes taking shape in the 60smuch of the reader's joy lies in the exquisite subtlety in taylor's depiction of all the relationships, the sharp brevity of her wit, and the apparently effortless way the plot unfolds' -robert mccrum 'the 100 best novels', guardian see oxfam website for delivery information read morewriter, the missing link between jane austen and john updike' (david baddiel, independent)on a rainy sunday in january, the recently widowed mrs palfrey arrives at the claremont hotel where she will spend her remaining days
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Winner of the booker prizethe story is told by its chief protagonist, saleem sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical eventsoxfam bookshop hertford portraying india's transition from british colonialism to independence and the partition of india it is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literaturesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Clare morrall's insightful, naïf narrative has resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers since its booker prize shortlisting in and continues to make new fans each yearand as children all around become emblems of hope and longing and grief, she's made shockingly aware of why she has this pervasive sense of non-existencewhat mystery makes kitty's decidedly odd family so vague about her mother's life? and why does dad splash paint on canvas rather than answer his daughter's questions? on the edges of her dreams kitty glimpses the 'kaleidoscope van' that took her sister dinah away - will it connect her to her childhood? this compelling and witty debut tells of identity struggles in a large family, the sadness of lost children - and the optimism of an eccentric, loving marriage ('he'd make a wonderful husband if it wasn't for me')oxfam shop colne road when is the right time to tell someone they're not who they think they are?caught in an over-vivid world, kitty is tipped off-centre by the loss of her 'child that never was'see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The long-awaited memoir of booker tnot long after, he would form the genre-defining group booker tand the mgs, whose recordings went on to sell millions of copies, win a place in rolling stone's list of top 500 songs of all time, and help forge collaborations with some of the era's most influential artists, including otis redding, wilson pickett, and sam & davenearly five decades later, jones's influence continues to help define the music industry, but only now is he ready to tell his remarkable life storysee oxfam website for delivery information read moretime is tight is the deeply moving account of how jones balanced the brutality of the segregationist south with the loving support of his family and community, all while transforming a burgeoning studio into a musical meccawhile he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, jones, on the side, was also recording sessions in what became the famous stax studios-all while still in high schooljones's earliest years in segregated memphis, music was the driving force in his lifejones, leader of the famed stax records house band, architect of the memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music
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The four prize winners received unconditional cash prizes as follows: first prize of £ svetlana fialova; second prize of £ marie von heyl; and student awards of £ each: kristian fletcher and tamsin nagelin the jerwood drawing prize was run in partnership with drawing projects ukthe 20th anniversary of the jerwood drawing prize exhibition was celebrated in , and in jerwood charitable foundation marked 15 years of its support for the prizethe prize is supported by jerwood charitable foundation through its contemporary gallery programme jerwood visual artsthe works were selected from more than submissions by kate brindley, director of middlesbrough institute of modern art; michael craig-martin ra, artist; and charlotte mullins, art critic, writer, broadcaster, and editor of art quarterly selected from original drawings, the jerwood drawing prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and to promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practicethe exhibition provides a platform to showcase the work of uk-based drawing practitioners, from student to established, and as a project helps to define a wider understanding of the role and value of drawing in creative practiceoxfam shop mutley plain " a total of 76 drawings are brought together in this group exhibition as part of the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the uk" book in very good condition with clean pages throughout and securely boundsee oxfam website for delivery information read morespecial commendations were awarded to neville gabie and gary lawrence
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Queens south africa medal bars tra, to pte e bookeryorkshire light inf; (docs on find my past)50 p&p read more
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Oxfam shop exmouth james booker resurrection of the bayou maharajah live at the maple leaf bar track list: 1medley: tico tico / papa was a rascalmedley: lawdy miss clawdy / ballad at the maple leafmedley: slow down / bony maronie / knock on wood / i heard it through the grapevine / classifiedpop's dilemma / irene goodnight 9:49 see oxfam website for delivery information read moresave your love for memedley: life / wine spo-dee-o-dee / it should have been mejames infirmary
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Artist: booker t & mgswe want you to be 100% happy with your orderyou are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if the goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failurewe cannot be held responsible for delays if you do not use this reference
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I am offering to the market this broadcast vinyl lp - prize song & liebesfreud & traumere! for salewe have 100's of vinyls / lp's currently in stock!!! special features: * broadcast * 2 sided vinyl * excellent condition * orignal play list: side 1: prize song side 2: liebesfreud & traumere go on, add a little piece of history to your homecheck out our other products
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Smart cup prize trophy ideal prize for a pony show 9'' x 3'' x 3'' small amount of tarnish on the size and motif thanks for lookingitems may be advertised elsewhere and could be removed early thank you read moreplease see my other items
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