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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham beyond the blue mountains is a collection of short stories by booker prize winning author penelope livelyshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markthe fourteen warmly humorous stories in beyond the blue mountains range from the fantasy of scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtle but significant events that go to create everyday experience'the fourteen brief stories in beyond the blue mountains reveal penelope lively at her most polished and perceptiveher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all begansee oxfam website for delivery information read morepenelope lively lives in londonshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe in"the slovenian giantess" is a condensed masterpiece' sunday times'penelope lively is a genius and this collection is a joyin any circumstances, from a wedding to a christmas shopping expedition, lively finds an emotional dilemma, engaging the reader as thoroughly as if they were reading a novel and leaving them speechless' daily mailpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children
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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham city of the mind is the second novel by booker prize winning author penelope livelyshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markit stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him'in london's changing heartland, architect matthew halland is aware of how the past and the present blendher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all begansee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and constructionshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inpenelope lively lives in londonhere too is the london of prehistory, of georgian elegance, of the blitzbut matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for london in docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his own'a glorious novel' observer'the descriptions of the london blitz are achingly real' sunday telegraphpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children'this is the city in which everything is simultaneous
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'the eye in the door' was awarded the guardian fiction prize, while the final volume in the 'regeneration' trilogy, 'the ghost road', won the booker prize insee oxfam website for delivery information read morewriting in the sunday times, peter kemp said, 'in the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly formsoxfam bookshop cheltenham set in london in , 'the eye in the door' is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of dr william rivers, billy prior, and siegfried sassoon begun in 'regeneration'at the forefront of her story, barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexualsa sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor'
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award and the governor-general's award, and short-listed for the booker prizethis is the story of daisy goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in manitoba, canada, to her death in a florida nursing home nearly ninety years latersee oxfam website for delivery information read more'the stone diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our centurythrough daisy's life, shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novel
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Oxfam books & music romsey the jewel in the crown is the epic award winning drama based on the booker prize winning classic novelsdirectors commentary on episode 4the haunting story opens during the turbulent final years of british rule in india as rioting and violence herald the granting of independencesee oxfam website for delivery information read morea tale of passion ensues as questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intriguecommentary with geraldine james and charles dance on episodesspecial featurescommentary with art malik and tim pigott-smith on episode 1
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Oxfam bookshop hertford *kazuo ishiguro's new novel klara and the sun is now available to preorder*winner of the booker prize by the nobel-prize winning authorone of the bbc's '100 novels that shaped our world'in the summer of , stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his pastsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea contemporary classic, the remains of the day is kazuo ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a great english house, of lost causes and lost love
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A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, the remains of the day, winner of the booker prize, contains ishiguro's now celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a great english house - within its walls can be heard ever more distinct echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across europeoxfam bookshop cheltenham in the summer of , stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the english countryside and into his pastsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop colne road named by the guardian as one of 'the 100 best novels,' and shortlisted for the booker prize, mrs palfrey at the claremont is a humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man from a 'magnificentthen one day mrs palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his noveltogether, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the grim reaper'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 daysmuch 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
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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigershe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markin , privileged misfit lorna meets the love of her lifelorna's decisions and their unforeseeable consequences come to shape the stories first of her daughter, molly, and then her granddaughter, ruthher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all begansee oxfam website for delivery information read morefalling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, matt, she abandons her stuffy kensington existence in london and moves to a rustic cottage in somerseta baby, molly, is born, but the coming war takes matt - and lorna's dreams - awaypenelope lively lives in londonshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardconsequences tells of three generations of women in their own twentieth-century times united by their shared experiences of love, pain, fate and happinessoxfam bookshop cheltenham a hugely satisfying and romantic novel, in consequences penelope lively plots the lives of three generations of twentieth-century women'a flawlessly constructed mini-epic that will delight' daily telegraph 'nourishing fare from a writer on sparkling form' daily mailpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children
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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 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 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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Winner of both a booker prize and pegasus prize for literature, the bone people is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerising emotional complexitythere is writing on the first page of the book see oxfam website for delivery information read moreout of this unorthodox trinity keri hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where maori and european new zealand meet, clash, and sometimes mergeoxfam books & music perth in a tower on the new zealand sea lives kerewin holmes, part maori, part european, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her familyone night her solitude is disrupted by a visitora speechless, mercurial boy named simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possessionas kerewin succumbs to simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his maori foster father joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality
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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 longlisted for the booker prize after the upheavals of the second world war, the richardson family - sam, ellen and their young son joe - settle back to working-class life in the cumbrian town of wigtonyet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same againas the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, sam and ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of joe, who grows up with his own demons to confrontsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Longlisted for the man booker prize run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with holly sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflictsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop dumfries the dazzling novel from the bestselling author of cloud atlasover six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imaginingand as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the booker prize and whitbread novel of the year awardin the summer of , four people reach a turning point: alice valentine, who lies gravely ill in her west country home; her two sons, one still searching for a sense of direction, the other fighting to keep his acting career and marriage afloat; and lászló lázár, who leads a comfortable life in paris yet is plagued by his memories of the hungarian uprisingfor each, the time has come to assess what matters in life, and all will be forced to take part in an act of liberation - though not necessarily the one foreseensee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the booker prize and the arthur cjan morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as venice, coronation everest, hong kong, spain, manhattan '45, a writer's world and the pax britannica trilogyranging from new york to venice, sydney to berlin, and the middle east to south africa, jan morris was a witness to such seminal moments as the eichmann trial, the first ascent of everest, the fall of the berlin wall and the handover of hong kong'a glorious compendium of adventure and wisdom' pico iyer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells in a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, jan morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth centuryand, as ever, she displays her unique and inimitable literary style, at once funny, wise and sadoffering a tremendously perceptive and highly personal view of the world, she is as much concerned with conveying the 'feel' of these moments as the events themselves
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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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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the man booker prize winner of the galaxy british book awards 'author of the year' 'an extraordinary and brilliant first novelbalram was born in a backwater village on the river ganges, the son of a rickshaw-pulleradiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and visionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escapewhen he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to delhi at the wheel of a hondaamid today's india's cockroaches and call-centres, its gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new india' sunday times meet balram halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murdererdriven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the tiger might escape his cage
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It was an instant international bestseller and won the booker prizesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher sequel, the testaments, was published inher novels include cat's eye, the robber bride, alias grace, the blind assassin and the maddaddam trilogyoxfam books & music aberdeen early poetry written by margaret atwood and published in margaret atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essaysher classic, the handmaid's tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of donald trump, when the handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the release of the award-winning channel 4 tv series
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This novel by a booker prize nominee is an engaging saga of two lovers paired for life, bound by strong family ties and firmly united by their terror of a common enemytheir adventures and the misadventures of their pups are seen through a framework of their own mythology, a world governed by rituals and traditions that began at the time of creation: firstdarka familiar scenario, perhaps, but here the devoted couple is a pair of foxes--o-ha, a vixen born in the british countryside, and her second mate, camio, who, after escaping from the zoo, becomes a streetwise scavenger in the suburbssee oxfam website for delivery information read morea true sense of peril, a wry observance of their other enemy, man, some quixotic digressions into the lives of their offspring and avoidance of sentimentality all combine to invite comparison to watership downher life with camio in trinity wood is equally hazardous; daily survival is difficulto-ha's first mate was killed by fox hunters and her initial litter froze to deaththe author endows his anthropomorphized characters with complex emotions, clear thinking, reasoned judgment and a shared stock of ancient clan memoriesyet the most ominous threat is from sabre, a vengeful ridgeback hound bent on destroying them bothunmarked board cover and inside pages clean and brightoxfam bookshop ludlow signed first edition, lovely copy of the cult bookcomplete with very tidy dust jacket, no tears
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square mary renault's classic greek historical novels 'the alexander trilogy', the first of which was nominated for the lost man booker prize ina fine gift for any mary renault fan or reader of greek historical fictionthis beautifully illustrated folio society edition is in excellent condition and is housed in its own boxed pictorial sleevesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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In 'reading turgenev', which was shortlisted for the booker prize, an irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older mansee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe second story, 'my house in umbria' tells how romantic novelist emily delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train and invents colourful pasts for her convalescent patientsoxfam bookshop cheltenham two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurredbut she finds unusual solace - in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for russian novels
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Winner of the booker prizethe story is told by its chief protagonist, saleem sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical eventssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hertford portraying india's transition from british colonialism to independence and the partition of india it is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature
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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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It won the booker prizeoxfam shop dumfries how late it was, how late is a stream of consciousness novel written by scottish writer james kelmanthe glasgow-centred work is written in a working class scottish dialect, and follows sammy, a shoplifter and ex-convictsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the sunday express book of the year award and short-listed for the booker prize, 'nice work' is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandingssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen vic wilcox, md of pringle's engineering works, meets english lecturer dr robyn penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head onbut, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves'a work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting' observer
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Oxfam shop evesham a world book night title and short listed for the booker prizethrough days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseenin india in the mid-'s, four unlikely people find themselves thrown together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "state of internal emergency"see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Short novel, shortlisted for the booker prizehappy to consider a discounted price if multiple items purchasedcash on collection preferred, but happy to post if requiredplease message me with any questions and check out my other advertsthank you! read more
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