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Oxfam shop clitheroe a moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, man booker shortlisted author karen joy fowlersix people - five women and a man - meet once a month in california's central valley to discuss jane austen's novelsthey are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships'if i could eat this novel, i would' alice sebold, author of the lovely bones'a thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners' entertainment weekly'we defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel' mail on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read moreover the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of jane austen a couple of them even fall in love
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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 evocativethen eamonn enters the sisters' liveshandsome 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 timessee 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 knewas the son of a powerful british muslim politician, eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defyafter 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 free
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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 prizesby 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 morebut 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 dayscromwell 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 novelists
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the baileys women's prize for fiction shortlisted for the costa novel awardlonglisted for the man booker prizewinner of the irish novel of the year hanna, dan, constance and emmet return to the west coast of ireland for a final family christmas in the home their mother is about to sell**one of the guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century** see oxfam website for delivery information read moreas the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home
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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 holidayspending 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 ownin the morning, futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his week-long circular walk along the rhinehe recalls his first trip to germany with his newly single fatherbut 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 findhe is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time around
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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 manaway from her bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in london's east end'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 morenazneen knows not a word of english, and is forced to depend on her husbandconfined 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
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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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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 warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejohn's past torments him as he nears his endlampy's heart has been laid waste by chloefrom war-torn syria to small-town ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of homeeach is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways
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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 morereservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's lossan 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 subsidea teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of englandthe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday lifemidwinter 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 thingsmeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsedthe 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 home
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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 prizethey 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-shockh lawrence and his german wife, frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips londonsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinto this turmoil come dyet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escapeshe is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writerlawrence and his german wife hiding out in cornwall during the first world warspring, , 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 grippedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut now, after the killing of a british soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is saferemarkable' 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, freedomwhile the fury swirls around them, selvon and ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grimeprovocative, raw, poetic yet tender, in our mad and furious city marks the arrival of a major new talent in fictiontheir 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 it
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Oxfam bookshop hertford shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsdrunks, 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 killersyet 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 morethat's what the russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thawnick has a confessionwhen 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 corruption
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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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Oxfam shop colne road shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsdrunks, 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 killersyet 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 morethat's what the russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thawnick has a confessionwhen 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 corruption
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Winner of the costa novel award; longlisted for the man booker prize; shortlisted for the goldsmiths prizean 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 subsidefrom the award-winning author of if nobody speaks of remarkable things, reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's lossa teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of englandfirst 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 dedicationthe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday lifebinding has a slight lean, and there are light surface marks to the unclipped dust jacket, otherwise in very good clean conditionmeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 homemidwinter in the early years of this century '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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Oxfam bookshop harrogate longlisted for the man booker prize , longlisted for the wainwright prize , shortlisted for the gordon burn prizenot far from london, there is a villagebut it also belongs to dead papa toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woodsdead papa toothwort, who is listening to them allcondition- as newthis village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years agoit belongs to mad pete, the grizzled artistto ancient peggy, gossiping at her gateit belongs to england's mysterious past and its confounding present see oxfam website for delivery information read morechimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful - a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love, lanny is the globally anticipated new novel from max porterto families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here
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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 )an 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 wifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut 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 dayscromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career
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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 prizesby 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 morebut 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 dayscromwell 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 novelists
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Oxfam shop dumfries memoir by one of the greatest of modern footballers, and former captain of manchester united and ireland, roy keane - co-written in a unique collaboration with man booker prize-winner roddy doylehis status as one of football's greatest stars is undisputed, but what of the challenges beyond the pitch? how did he succeed in coming to terms with life as a former manchester united and ireland leader and champion, reinventing himself as a manager and then a broadcaster, and cope with the psychological struggles this entailed? in a stunning collaboration with booker prize-winning author roddy doyle, the second half blends anecdote and reflection in roy keane's inimitable voiceaggressive and highly competitive, his attitude helped him to excel as captain of manchester united from until his departure insee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas part of a tiny elite of football players, roy keane has had a life like no otherplaying at an international level for nearly all his career, he represented the republic of ireland for over fourteen years, mainly as team captain, until an incident with national coach mick mccarthy resulted in keane's walk-out from the world cupin an eighteen-year playing career for cobh ramblers, nottingham forest (under brian clough), manchester united (under sir alex ferguson) and celtic, roy keane dominated every midfield he led to glorysince retiring as a player, keane has managed sunderland and ipswich and has become a highly respected television punditthe result is an unforgettable personal odyssey which fearlessly challenges the meaning of success
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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) 4are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikibar-kays soul finger volt s 417 (stax label) germany atco labels vinyl excellent sleeve excellent - 2and 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 more(except for one) 1and the mg's and bar-kays (booker toriginal 1st pressingsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiterelated) 4 wonderful records in excellent conditioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the man booker prizeshortlisted for the the orange prizeshortlisted for the costa novel award dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' daily mail'our most brilliant english writer'guardianengland, the scromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and eventshenry viii is on the throne, but has no heirhis reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous ragessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us tudor england as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courageinto this atmosphere of distrust and need comes thomas cromwell, first as wolsey's clerk, and later his successorcardinal wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grantruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himselffrom one of our finest living writers, wolf hall is that very rare thing: a truly great english novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics
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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 fishonce upon a time, miraculous things happenedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 thereand 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 lifeat combe abbey, a traditional english public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistakeimprisoned 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 besee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe isn't noticing that, at combe abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrongin a tiny flat in west london, sixteen-year-old marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, laura, and three ancient hungarian relativesbut the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider
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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 notsee 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 earlierstruggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life foreverhailed as a masterpiece, richard flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truth
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All of them will meet the same manoxfam bookshop cheltenham a dark psychological thriller with a killer twist, that has topped the bestseller charts in its native israel*translated by man booker winner jessica cohen*three tells the stories of three women: orna, a divorced single-mother looking for a new relationship; emilia, a latvian immigrant on a spiritual search; and ella, married and mother of three, returning to university to write her thesishe won't tell them the whole truth about himself - but they don't tell him everything eitherit is a declaration of war against the normalisation of death and violenceslowly but surely, you see the danger each woman walks intosee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhat you won't see is the trap being laid - until it snaps shuttense, twisted and surprising, three is a daring new form of psychological thrillerhis name is gil
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But something even darker is at the heart of walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell itoxfam bookshop hertford winner of the international impac dublin literary awardwinner of the james tait black prizeshortlisted for the man booker prizeshortlisted for the goldsmiths prizeshortlisted for the walter scott prize for historical fictionas late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threata trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see walter thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraftsee 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 tnearly 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 moreand 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 & davejones, leader of the famed stax records house band, architect of the memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in musictime 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 meccajones's earliest years in segregated memphis, music was the driving force in his lifewhile 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 school
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shortlisted for the cwa john creasey dagger and a theakston's new blood author forsimply supberb' mjimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with ptsd, did his best to pretend he hadn't heard it - the sound of something heavy falling into the tyne at the height of an argument between two men on the riverbanksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham gritty, newcastle-set crime for fans of ian rankin and robert galbraithbut jimmy has one big advantage: when you've got nothing, you've got nothing to losecraven, author of the puppet showit started with a splashjimmy is a character you root for from page onebut telling carrie, what he heard - or thought he heard - turns out to be just the beginning of the story'fresh, original, authentic and gritty - should be an instant classic' lee child'intricate, expertly paced with a shocking conclusionthen he sees the headline: girl in missing dad pleathe police don't believe him, but carrie is adamant that something awful has happened to her dad and jimmy agrees to help her, putting himself at risk from enemies old and newthe girl, carrie, reminds him of someone he lost, and this makes his mind up: it's time to stop hiding from his past
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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 selectionjack and ma are prisonerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe lives with his mathey live in a single, locked roomthey don't have the keyroom by emma donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom
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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 mysterythis is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and racesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut 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 obscurity
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