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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham it is just months before the nazi occupation of poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, jakob beer, an orphaned jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviourliving forever in the shadow of the holocaust, although jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own historyhe is saved by the geologist and humanist athos roussos, who takes him to his greek island home where he becomes his studentbut the trauma of jakob's early life refuses to leave him
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 chloeeach is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of waysfrom war-torn syria to small-town ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of homejohn's past torments him as he nears his end
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham new york, august : a man is walking in the skysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebetween the newly built twin towers, the man twirls through the airfar below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: corrigan, a radical irish monk working in the bronx; claire, a delicate upper east side housewife reeling from the death of her son; lara, a drug-addled young artist; gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of new yorkin the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham resistance opens in , as the women of a small welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gonein his hugely anticipated debut novel, owen sheers has produced a beautifully imagined and powerfully moving story of love and losssoon after that a german patrol arrives in their valley
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham because alice and howard goodwin run a small dairy farm in the midst of encroaching suburbia, and because their whimsical ways betray their city origins, they are shunned as 'that hippie couple', outsiders in the small midwestern town of prairie centerbut alice has always believed that all it would take to fall from grace is 'one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident'this sets into motion a devastating and irrevocable string of events that will change the goodwins' lives for ever as they find themselves trapped in a nightmare from which they cannot escapeand one morning, while alice is babysitting her neighbour's children, a tragic accident does occur on the farmnevertheless, they feel that they and their two daughters are living in a self-made paradisea map of the worldis a harrowing tale of guilt, betrayal and the loss of innocencespellbinding, lyrical, and universal in its themes, this powerful, emotional page-turner shows that jane hamilton is a writer of exceptional talent
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham a story of struggle and hardship and one girl's battle for survival from the best-selling author of if you were the only girl and another man's childwhat destiny awaits angela and her unborn child? caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, will angela forever be punished for the choices that she makes? see oxfam website for delivery information read moretragedy strikes and angela is left to rear her frail daughter on her own, though the worst is yet to come when angela suffers another terrible misfortunebut the dream of a better life is dashed as bad fortune dogs the familywhen angela marries her childhood sweetheart, she has hopes of a brighter future, which are dashed when her husband is called up to fight in the great warpregnant and destitute and already with one mouth to feed that she can ill afford, there is nowhere left to turnangela mccluskey comes to birmingham from ireland with her family as a young girl to escape the terrible poverty in her homeland
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham in yorkshire, the potter family are preparing to celebrate elizabeth ii's arrival on the thronethe first frederica potter novel see oxfam website for delivery information read moreon the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desiresthen there is fredericaits three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other mattersanxious teenager marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visionsstephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham bond does not himself feature until quite late in this novel - the opening chapters, one of fleming's most amazing fantasies, creates the nightmare world of smersh - the russian counter-spy organisation, its sickeningly foul section head rosa klebb and her top assassin grantwhen the action shifts to istanbul and klebb's plot to destroy the unsuspecting bond one of the most brilliant chase sequences in fiction (unrivalled even by buchan or greene) unfoldsone of the defining books of the cold war (and one of president kennedy's favourite books) from russia with love is perhaps even more enjoyable to read now than when it first became a huge international bestseller
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'i'm still rather fond of this first book of mine, in spite of all the time that has elapsed, and in spite of the way my style has evolvedit's never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as alice discovers when joe introduces her to his new girlfriendthen alice finds an old diary and reads about two men and the mysterious woman who bewitched them both, buried in grantchester churchyard half a century ago' joanne harriscaution - may contain vampiresas the stories seem to intertwine, alice comes to realize that her instinctive hatred of joe's new girlfriend may not just be due to jealousy, as she is plunged into a nightmare world of obsession, revenge, seduction - and blood
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham new novel from bestselling author of divorcing jack and starring the inimitable hero dan starkeysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand it's not just bullets that dan is dodging, when a smouldering romance threatens the frequently-rocky balance of his marriage to patriciathis novel can be read entirely without reference to the other starkey books, and may be bateman's best yetdan starkey gets caught up in the world of writing (he can handle that) terrorists (he's been there before) and movie hype (more frightening than anything yet encountered) in a cracking adventure that takes him from dublin to the cannes film festival
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham "we came out here to begin againsee oxfam website for delivery information read more" timely and suspenseful, sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhooda terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around themheavily pregnant alice and her partner pete are done with the citywith their relationship under intolerable pressure, violence erupts and alice is faced with the unthinkable as she fights to protect her unborn childwith elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is also an unforgettable story about a mother's fight to survivebut the mountains and their people hold a different kind of dangerabove all, alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban populationsurely their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their little familyno one said to us: god knows what will beginno one said to us: beware of fresh startswe came out here for the clear air and a fresh start
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham a return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of characters that made captain corelli's mandolin such an extraordinary hit (2can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the great war? see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the boys end up scattered along the western front, rosie is left confused by her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying acein the brief golden years before the outbreak of world war i, rosie mccosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in kent, with their neighbours the pitt boys on one side and the pendennis boys on the other5 million copies sold)but their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthood
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the winner of the national book award, the new york times nosee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit announces jonathan franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of american society and the american soulstretching from the midwest in the mid-century to wall street and eastern europe in the age of globalised greed, the corrections brings an old-time america of freight trains and civic duty into wild collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and new economy millionairesalfred is ill and as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures, secrets and long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needsthe lamberts - enid and alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age1 bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, the corrections has established itself as a truly great american novel
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 prisonersroom by emma donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedomthey live in a single, locked roomthey don't have the keyhe lives with his ma
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham on the day after halloween, in the year , four children slip away from the cathedral city of kingsbridgesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreone boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt noblemanthey will see prosperity and famine, plague and warthey are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctorone girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible lovenow world without end takes readers back to medieval kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical changeas adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revengein the forest they see two men killedand always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood dayken follett's masterful epic the pillars of the earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham a lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as meltdown, is threatening to destabilize societysee oxfam website for delivery information read moretheir search for the mastermind behind a pair of murderous gangland twins takes them from the clubs of manchester to spain and germany, and danny needs all his newly learned expertise when he comes up against an old adversary - someone he hoped never to encounter againdudley knows that the security services have to act fast, and when his 4 x 4 arrives at their remote hideout in the canadian lakes, eighteen-year-old danny and his grandfather, ex-sas hero fergus watts, are once again sucked into a deadly undercover operation and a race against timeand this time, when the battle is joined, it is a battle to the end
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham bea britt lives alone in her grandmother's house in west oslosee oxfam website for delivery information read moreemilie's rucksack is found in bea britt's gardenearly one morning, she wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfolding on her tvonly human is a rich, urgent novel about family, enduring oneself and others, and what is needed when life wears thinbut as her spiralling doubts and suspicions take over, is she a suspect, a witness or a potential second victim? the mystery of emilie's disappearance and bea britt's story are intricately bound to the lives of two other women: bea britt's grandmother cecilie, a troubled s housewife whose marriage has broken down, and university student beate, who is desperate for love but plagued by uncertaintyvolunteers are scouring the local woods looking for emilie, a missing schoolgirlit lays bare the hopes, dreams, fears and failures of three infinitely human characters, and is delicately revealing of the choices that shape a human life and our quest for companionship and love
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the sands of ammon brilliantly describes alexander's quest to conquer asia, the limitless domain ruled by the great king of the persiansone that will change his already amazing life see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut there is much danger aheaddespite the defeat of daruis, the island city of tyre and the towers of gaza prove to be formidable obstaclesin a seemingly impossible venture, alexander and his men storm persian fortresses and harbours, crippling king daruis' domination of land and searuthlessly, alexander's war machine moves ever onward taking him up into the snow-covered anatolian highlands, and ever closer to his destinyeven the legendary haliacarnassus is defeated by the macedionan armiesundeterred, alexander surges forth over land and sea to the mysterious land of egypt and there, in the sands, lies the oracle of ammon, waiting to reveal an amazing truth to alexander
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham at the end of the nineteenth century china is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellionssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe only constant is the power wielded by one woman, tzu hsi, also known as empress orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal lossesin this sequel to the bestselling empress orchid, anchee min brings to life one of the most important figures in chinese history, a very human leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both those she loves and her doomed empire
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'deliciously romanticsee oxfam website for delivery information read morediscover this feel-good bestseller set by the sea, perfect for fans of jo thomas and cathy bramleyif the sisters don't turn things around quickly, their grandmother's legacy will disappear foreverwith summer looming, imogen and anna devise a plan to return vivien's to its former glorywhen imogen and anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother vivien's ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside-downrather than sell up, they will train up, and make the parlour the newest destination on the south coast foodie mapwhile imogen watches the shop, her sister flies to italy to attend a gourmet ice cream-making coursea perfect summer read!' miranda dickinsonbut as she works shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the best chefs in the industry, anna finds that romance can bloom in the most unexpected of placesthe brighton shop is a seafront institution, but while it's big on charm it's critically low on customers
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham three secretssee oxfam website for delivery information read morejuly : in carcassonne a 17-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true grail1 bestselling novel10th anniversary edition of the spellbinding noalthough alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safesomehow, a link to a horrific past - her past - has been revealedjuly : alice tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the french pyreneespuzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham amber salpone doesn't mean to keep ending up in bed with her friend greg walterson, but she can't help herselfsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand every time it 'just happens' their secret affair moves closer to being a real relationship, which is a big problem when he's a womaniser and she's a commitment-phobethe chocolate run is a delectable tale of lust, love and chocolatewhile amber struggles to accept her new feelings for greg, she also realises that her closeness to jen, her best friend, is slipping away and the two of them are becoming virtual strangersslowly but surely, as the stark truths of all their lives are revealed, amber has to confront the fact that chocolate can't cure everything and sometimes running away isn't an option
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the sunday times bestsellera bestselling richard and judy bookclub pickshortlisted for the desmond elliott prizeshortlisted for the author's club best first novel award'a lush, romantic novel' daily mail: leo deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in south america, his girlfriend eleni is dead and leo doesn't know where he is or how eleni diedwhen moritz finally limps back into his village to claim the hand of the woman he left behind, will she still be waiting?'special' sunday express'tender' observer'mesmerising' publishing news see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despairseven thousand kilometres over the russian steppes separate him from his village and his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivitymoritz daniecki is a fugitive from a siberian pow campthe great war may be over, but moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil warbut leo is about to discover something which will change his life forever
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle withsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejoin flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the worldcan a man be all bad? when harry flashman's adventures as the reluctant secret agent in afghanistan lead him to join the exclusive company of lord cardigan's hussars and play a part in the disastrous retreat from kabul, it culminates in the rascal's finest - and most dishonest - turn
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham from the author of harry's game - a sunday times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since ' pickgus peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family debt of friendship draws him to the remote wastes of northern iraq and to a savage forgotten war between kurdish guerillas and saddam hussein's military strengthto the brutal, no-quarter combat, peake can bring the skills he has learned as a marksmanbut there is no room for mistakes on the field of battle and he must quickly learn to deal out random death at long distance, and help the guerillas to reach their goal, the city of kirkuk, the old capital of the kurdish peoplefrom baghdad, iraq sends major karim aziz, the most dedicated and professional sniper in saddam's armyfor both men their duel, from which only one can walk away, becomes an obsessionand it will only take one shot, echoing in the mountains and vallegs, to settle the score
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the upheavals of the second world war reverberated in the peace that followed, and many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had anticipatedcrafted with potent understatement and acute insight into the twists and turns of the heart, this is a formidable successor to melvyn bragg's widely praised and award-winning novel, the soldier's return see oxfam website for delivery information read morelike sam richardson, who was determined to break free of the constraints of his background and leave cumbria for the promised land of australiayet now, a few months on, he has settled for a job in wigton's paper factory, and believes he has put both his aspirations and his memories of fighting in burma behind himbetween them their young son joe strives to fulfil the conflicting expectations of childhood and adolescence and confronts his own demonshis wife, ellen, begins to know better, realising how close to the brink their marriage had come
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the buddha of suburbia, hanif kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young pakistani growing up in s britainkarim lives with his mum and dad in a suburb of south london and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big citybut his father is no ordinary dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the eastamong his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious eva, and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in barons court, karim's life becomes changed in ways that even he had never dreamed of
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham beyond the main street of les laveuses runs the loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surfaceas her nephew attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes framboise has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers, memories of a disturbed childhood during the german occupation flood back, and expose a past full of betrayal, blackmail and liesthis is where framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie - and lets her memory play strange games
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the international prize for arabic fiction shortlisted for the arthur csee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrankenstein in baghdad brilliantly captures the horror and black humour of a city at warbut when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps across the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking, flesh-eating monster that cannot be killedhe claims he does it to force the government to recognise the parts as real people, and give them a proper burialclarke award a satirical reimagining of mary shelley's frankenstein from the rubble-strewn streets of us-occupied baghdad, hadi collects body parts from the dead, which he stitches together to form a corpseat first it's the guilty he attacks, but soon it's anyone who crosses his path
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham the master of biography, stefan zweig, turns his attention to the life of history's most notorious loversee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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