The baileys womens prize for fiction shortlisted for the costa novel awardlonglisted
List the baileys womens prize for fiction shortlisted for the costa novel awardlonglisted
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Oxfam shop evesham a top-ten bestseller, shortlisted for the costa novel award, this must be the place by maggie o'farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage'a complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' the sunday timesa reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of ireland, claudette wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgunwill their love for one another be enough to bring daniel back home? see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhy is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet?her husband daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his ownit is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and claudette have made together
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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 evocativeis 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 timesa powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' guardian isma is freeas the son of a powerful british muslim politician, eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in america, resuming a dream long deferredhandsome and privileged, he inhabits a london worlds away from theirsthen eamonn enters the sisters' livesbut she can't stop worrying about aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in london - or their brother, parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew
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Oxfam shop evesham shortlisted for the costa novel awards and the folio prize nora webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing todayas the dynamic of the family changes, she seems both fiercely self-possessed but also a figure of great moral ambiguity, making her one of the most memorable heroines in contemporary fictioncolm toibin's nora is a character as resonant as anna karenina or madame bovary and nora webster is a novel that illuminates our own lives in a way that is rare in literaturethe portrait that is painted in the years that follow is harrowing, piercingly insightful, always tender and deeply trueslowly, through the gift of music and the power of friendship, she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting againits humanity and compassion forge an unforgettable reading experienceit is the late s in irelandnora webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband'a profoundly gifted world writer' sebastian barry see oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them
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Oxfam shop worcester shortlisted for the costa novel awards and the folio prize, nora webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing todayas the dynamic of the family changes, she seems both fiercely self-possessed but also a figure of great moral ambiguity, making her one of the most memorable heroines in contemporary fictioncolm tóibÃn's nora is a character as resonant as anna karenina or madame bovary and nora webster is a novel that illuminates our own lives in a way that is rare in literaturethe portrait that is painted in the years that follow is harrowing, piercingly insightful, always tender and deeply true 'a profoundly gifted world writer' sebastian barry see oxfam website for delivery information read moreslowly, through the gift of music and the power of friendship, she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting againits humanity and compassion forge an unforgettable reading experiencenora webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husbandit is the late s in irelandshe is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them
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shortlisted for the costa novel awardthe violent extremes of the north obsess them both: perpetual night and endless day; frozen seas and coastal meadows, and the strange, maddening pull it exerts on the people trying to make their mark on its vast expanses - a pursuit of glory whose outcome will reverberate for years to comefollow your ambition'a dazzling tale of romance and survival' (guardian)follow the path to the freezing northoxfam bookshop cheltenham richard & judy book clubit is a fateful meeting, where passion and ambition collide and an irresistible attraction is bornjakob and flora's paths crossyears later, in , determination and chance lead her back to northern greenland as a scientist at the head of a british expedition, defying the expectations of those who believe a woman has no place in that harsh worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyearning for wider horizons, he joins a rival expeditionfollow your heartflora mackie first crossed the arctic circle at the age of twelvegeologist jakob de beyn was raised in manhattan
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the epic novel award in the romantic novelists association books awardsspanning four generations, the midnight rose by lucinda riley sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of india to the majestic stately homes of england, following the extraordinary life of a girl, anahita chavan, from to the present daybecoming the princess's official companion, anahita accompanies her friend to england just before the outbreak of the great warshortly after filming begins at the now-crumbling astbury hall, ari malik, anahita's great-grandson, arrives unexpectedly, on a quest for his family's pasta lifelong passionthere, she meets the young donald astbury - reluctant heir to the magnificent, remote astbury estate - and his scheming motheran endless searchin the heyday of the british raj, eleven-year-old anahita, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong princess indira, the privileged daughter of rich indian royaltysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeighty years later, rebecca bradley, a young american film star, has the world at her feetwhat he and rebecca discover begins to unravel the dark secrets that haunt the astbury dynastybut when her turbulent relationship with her equally famous boyfriend takes an unexpected turn, she's relieved that her latest role, playing a s debutante, will take her away from the glare of publicity to the wilds of dartmoor in england
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Winner of the women's prize for fictionpaperback book is in very good conditioncollection onlythe road home by the author rose tremain
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Note, it did not and does not come with the lensany questions or further information required, please just askwill be the basis of a great cool fuji set upit is running the latest firmware v1fuji xe3 for salebuyer collect, but can be posted tracked and insured at costno courier collectionthis owned from new camera is in unmarked condition and comes with the half leather case in the pictures, boxed with all original accessories3mp aps-c x-trans cmos iii sensor fujifilm x processor pro iso (expandable to iso ) up to 14fps continuous shooting 3in, k-dot touchscreen 4k movie recording fps wi-fi and bluetooth read moreplease read on line reviews of this little beltershutter count 147 actuations, i bought the camera 'body only' for £615 sept for the case
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All the cables available except for a cable for the controllerplaystation 3 console with 15 games
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For sale 2 seater italian leather sofa few years old but in very good conditioncooker only used 3 times and machine never used both, both in excellent working order as they should beindesit iwsckg washing machine and gorenje ewg electric cooker both 7 months old, in immaculate condition which come with the manufaturer's guarantee£250 the lot or £90 for cooker, £90 for the washing machine and £80 for sofa
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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 cheltenham shortlisted for the commonwealth writers' prize and costa novel of the year, this international bestseller has become a reading group classicwe don't want to tell you too much about this booknevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this:it is extremely funny, but the african beach scene is horrificit is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil itonce you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about itand it's what happens afterwards that is most importantsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe magic is in how it unfoldsthe story starts there, but the book doesn'twhen you do, please don't tell them what happens either
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Oxfam bookshop st albans shortlisted for the commonwealth writers' prize and costa novel of the year, this international bestseller has become a reading group classicwe don't want to tell you too much about this bookwhen you do, please don't tell them what happens eitherit is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil itnevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: it is extremely funny, but the african beach scene is horrificonce you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about itsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe story of two women whose lives collide one day, leaving one with a terrible choice to makeand it's what happens afterwards that is most importantthe magic is in how it unfoldsthe story starts there, but the book doesn'ttwo years later they meet again
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Oxfam shop clitheroe shortlisted for the commonwealth writers' prize and costa novel of the year, this international bestseller has become a reading group classicwe don't want to tell you too much about this booknevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this:it is extremely funny, but the african beach scene is horrificit is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil itonce you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about itand it's what happens afterwards that is most importantsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe magic is in how it unfoldsthe story starts there, but the book doesn'twhen you do, please don't tell them what happens either
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Awards: winner of the baileys women's prize for fiction and the desmond elliot prizecondition: very goodcollection onlygenre: contemporary irish culture
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Winner of the costa first novel award'this is a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill' observer'a masterful excursion into terror' the sunday times see oxfam website for delivery information read morein the long hours of waiting, the boys are left aloneone mute, the other his lifelong protectorbut then the child's body is foundit's an amazing piece of fiction' stephen kingtwo brothersoxfam bookshop cheltenham the sunday times top 10 bestsellerthe british book awards book of the yearyear after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the loney, in desperate hope of a cureand they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its enda brilliantly unsettling and atmospheric debut full of unnerving horror - 'the loney is not just good, it's greatmany years on, hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother's careand the loney always gives up its secrets, in the end
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Then one day mrs palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his noveloxfam 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 'magnificentmuch 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 moreher fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip'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 60swriter, 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 daystogether, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the grim reaper
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This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and raceoxfam bookshop cheltenham now a major tv series starring martin clunes, arsher ali and art malikfrom the winner of the man booker prize for fiction , an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mysterybut as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as the great wyrley outragesmost of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can provesee oxfam website for delivery information read morearthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while george remains in hard-working obscurityarthur and george grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century britain: arthur in shabby-genteel edinburgh, george in the vicarage of a small staffordshire village
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Oxfam shop bearsden winner of the women's prize for fiction - the sunday times bestseller'richly sensuoushamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwrightit is a story of the bond between twins, and of a marriage pushed to the brink by griefon a summer's day in , a young girl in stratford-upon-avon takes to her bed with a feversomething special' the sunday times'a thing of shimmering wonder' david mitchelltwo extraordinary peoplea loss that threatens to tear them apartneither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the weekit is also the story of a kestrel and its mistress; flea that boards a ship in alexandria; and a glovemaker's son who flouts convention in pursuit of the woman he lovestheir father is working in londona love that draws them togethersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher twin brother, hamnet, searches everywhere for helpwhy is nobody at home? their mother, agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbsabove all, it is a tender and unforgettable reimagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the hugo award for best novel book 1 in the record-breaking triple hugo-award-winning trilogy***a new york times notable book******shortlisted for the world fantasy, nebula, kitschies, audie and locus awards******the inaugural wired'astounding' npr;'amazing' ann leckie; 'breaks uncharted ground' library journal; 'powerful' io9; 'elegiac, complex, and intriguing' publishers weekly; 'intricate and extraordinary' new york times; 'brilliant' washington post the broken earth trilogy is complete - beginning with the fifth season, continuing in the obelisk gate (winner of the hugo award for best novel) and concluding with the stone sky (winner of the hugo award for best novel and nebula award)it starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sunand where there is no mercyfor the last timecom book club pick this is the way the world endsit starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughtersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to festerthis is the stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon
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Oxfam bookshop hertford **shortlisted for the walter scott prize th century oakham, in somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridgebut will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, thomas newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village? and what will happen if he can't?moving back in time towards the moment of thomas newman's death, the story is related by reve - an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keepsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough his eyes, and his indelible voice, harvey creates a medieval world entirely tangible in its immediacywhen a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of shrove saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? the village priest, john reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor
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shortlisted for the smarties prize, the secret of platform 13 is an exciting magical adventure from eva ibbotson, the award-winning author of journey to the river seait appears only once every nine yearsa wizard, an ogre, a fey and a young hag have come to find the prince of their kingdom, stolen as a baby nine years beforecondition- very good see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand when it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of londonoxfam bookshop harrogate under platform 13 at king's cross station there is a secret door that leads to a magical islandbut the prince has become a horrible rich boy called raymond trottle, who doesn't understand magic and is determined not to be rescued
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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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*shortlisted for the goodreads historical novel award* see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen disaster strikes, tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat - her employer also survivestess, an aspiring seamstress, is stunned at her luck when the famous designer lady lucile duff gordon hires her to be a personal maid on the titanic's doomed voyageon dry land, savage rumours begin to circulate: did lady duff gordon save herself at the expense of others?tess's dream of becoming a skilled dressmaker is within her grasp but now she is faced with a terrible choiceauthentic and honest, the dressmaker is a compelling and vivid story that will have you holding your breath until the last pageoxfam bookshop hertford torn between her dreams and the truth, she was faced with an impossible choicesuddenly she finds herself torn between loyalty to the fiery woman who could help her realise her ambitions and the devastating truth that her mentor may not be all she seems
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Author: lionel shriver winner of the orange prize for fiction read moretitle: we need to talk about kevin
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' the sun - best books of shortlisted for the edward stanford travel memoir of the year award 'his story reads like a fast-paced thrillerhis travels have taken him across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world' telegraph praise for simon reeve'tv's most interesting globetrotter' independent'the craziest (or bravest) man on tv' mail on sunday'like all the best travellers, reeve carries out his investigations with infectious relish, and in the realisation that trying to understand the country you're in is not just fascinating, but also hugely enjoyable' daily telegraph'simon might just be the best tour guide in the world' the sun* * * * * * * * *in tv adventurer simon reeve's bestselling memoir he describes how he has journeyed across epic landscapes, dodged bullets on frontlines, walked through minefields and been detained for spying by the kgb' daily mail'my goodness, it is brilliantin this revelatory account of his life simon gives the full story behind some of his favourite expeditions, and traces his own inspiring personal journey back to leaving school without qualifications, teetering on a bridge, and then overcoming his challenges by climbing to a 'lost valley' and changing his life' kate humble' simon begins to fill in the gaps in his life story that until recently he has never publicly revealedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresearingly honest, warm, bursting with humanitysuch brave and inspiring writingoxfam bookshop royal exchange square 'incredibly honestone of the best autobiographies i've ever read
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shortlisted for the cwa john creasey dagger and a theakston's new blood author forjimmy is a character you root for from page onejimmy, 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 riverbankthe girl, carrie, reminds him of someone he lost, and this makes his mind up: it's time to stop hiding from his pastthen he sees the headline: girl in missing dad pleasimply supberb' mbut jimmy has one big advantage: when you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loseoxfam bookshop cheltenham gritty, newcastle-set crime for fans of ian rankin and robert galbraithsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut telling carrie, what he heard - or thought he heard - turns out to be just the beginning of the storycraven, author of the puppet showit started with a splashthe 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 new'fresh, original, authentic and gritty - should be an instant classic' lee child'intricate, expertly paced with a shocking conclusion
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Oracle sequence: the oracle, paperback by fisher, catherine, isbn , isbn-13 shortlisted for the whitbread awardfirst of a compelling trilogy, full of action, betrayals and mystery, drawing on the rituals of the ancient greeks and egyptians
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Oxfam shop lancaster this pewter jug is engraved with the president's prize for york regattait was made in sheffield, england and is in very good condition for its ageit is fully functional and has an engraved handlesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit measures 5" tall and its circumference is 12"5 at its widest
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