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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 warfrom 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 endlampy'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 ways
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham new york, august : a man is walking in the skysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for everbetween 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 york
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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 centernevertheless, they feel that they and their two daughters are living in a self-made paradisebut alice has always believed that all it would take to fall from grace is 'one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident'spellbinding, lyrical, and universal in its themes, this powerful, emotional page-turner shows that jane hamilton is a writer of exceptional talentand one morning, while alice is babysitting her neighbour's children, a tragic accident does occur on the farmthis 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 escapea map of the worldis a harrowing tale of guilt, betrayal and the loss of innocence
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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 morewhen 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 turntragedy 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 familyangela 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 morestephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curateits three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other mattersanxious teenager marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visionsthen there is fredericaon the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires
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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 grantone 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 bestsellerwhen 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) unfolds
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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 evolvedthen 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 vampiresit'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 girlfriendas 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 motherhoodabove all, alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban populationbut the mountains and their people hold a different kind of dangerwith their relationship under intolerable pressure, violence erupts and alice is faced with the unthinkable as she fights to protect her unborn childsurely their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their little familya terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around themno one said to us: beware of fresh startsheavily pregnant alice and her partner pete are done with the cityno one said to us: god knows what will beginwe came out here for the clear air and a fresh startwith elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is also an unforgettable story about a mother's fight to survive
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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 morebut their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthoodin 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 otherwhen 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 ace5 million copies sold)
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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 morealfred 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 needs1 bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, the corrections has established itself as a truly great american novelit announces jonathan franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of american society and the american soulthe lamberts - enid and alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled agestretching 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 millionaires
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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 selectionhe lives with his mathey 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, freedomjack and ma are prisonersthey don't have the key
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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 moreken 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 cathedralin the forest they see two men killedone boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt noblemanthey are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctoras adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revengeand always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood daynow 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 changeone girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible lovethey will see prosperity and famine, plague and war
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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 againand this time, when the battle is joined, it is a battle to the enddudley 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 time
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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 moreonly human is a rich, urgent novel about family, enduring oneself and others, and what is needed when life wears thinearly one morning, she wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfolding on her tvvolunteers 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 lovebut 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 uncertaintyemilie's rucksack is found in bea britt's garden
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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 moredespite the defeat of daruis, the island city of tyre and the towers of gaza prove to be formidable obstaclesbut there is much danger aheadundeterred, 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 alexanderruthlessly, 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 armiesin a seemingly impossible venture, alexander and his men storm persian fortresses and harbours, crippling king daruis' domination of land and sea
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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 morebut 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 customerswhen imogen and anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother vivien's ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside-downwhile imogen watches the shop, her sister flies to italy to attend a gourmet ice cream-making coursea perfect summer read!' miranda dickinsonrather than sell up, they will train up, and make the parlour the newest destination on the south coast foodie mapif the sisters don't turn things around quickly, their grandmother's legacy will disappear foreverdiscover this feel-good bestseller set by the sea, perfect for fans of jo thomas and cathy bramleywith summer looming, imogen and anna devise a plan to return vivien's to its former glory
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham three secretssee oxfam website for delivery information read more1 bestselling novelsomehow, a link to a horrific past - her past - has been revealedpuzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hiddenalthough alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safejuly : alice tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the french pyrenees10th anniversary edition of the spellbinding nojuly : in carcassonne a 17-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true grail
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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 morewhile 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 optionand 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 chocolate
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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 moremoritz daniecki is a fugitive from a siberian pow campbut leo is about to discover something which will change his life foreverhe blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despairthe great war may be over, but moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil warseven thousand kilometres over the russian steppes separate him from his village and his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity
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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 strengthand it will only take one shot, echoing in the mountains and vallegs, to settle the scoreto the brutal, no-quarter combat, peake can bring the skills he has learned as a marksmanfor both men their duel, from which only one can walk away, becomes an obsessionbut 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 army
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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 australiabetween them their young son joe strives to fulfil the conflicting expectations of childhood and adolescence and confronts his own demonsyet 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 himhis 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 britainamong 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 ofkarim 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 east
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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 surfacethis is where framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie - and lets her memory play strange gamesas 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 lies
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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 morehe 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 pathbut 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 killedfrankenstein in baghdad brilliantly captures the horror and black humour of a city at war
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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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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham summer : on the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand english country house, a young poet takes his lifeghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the crackswinter : grace bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of riverton manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicidea shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but grace never coulda thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, kate morton's the house at riverton will appeal to readers of ian mcewan's atonement, lhartley's the go-between, and lovers of the film gosford parkthe only witnesses, sisters hannah and emmeline hartford, will never speak to each other again
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