The independent bookshop week book award longlisted for the man booker prize
List the independent bookshop week book award longlisted for the man booker prize
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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 conflictover six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imaginingoxfam shop dumfries the dazzling novel from the bestselling author of cloud atlassee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand 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 harrogate longlisted for the man booker prize , longlisted for the wainwright prize , shortlisted for the gordon burn prizenot far from london, there is a village see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years agoit belongs to mad pete, the grizzled artistcondition- as newto families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved herebut it also belongs to dead papa toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woodschimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful - a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love, lanny is the globally anticipated new novel from max porterdead papa toothwort, who is listening to them allto ancient peggy, gossiping at her gateit belongs to england's mysterious past and its confounding present
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham ***longlisted for the man booker prize ******shortlisted for the costa novel award ***'an engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' roddy doylefarouk's country has been torn apart by wareach is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of waysjohn's past torments him as he nears his endlampy's heart has been laid waste by chloesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom war-torn syria to small-town ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham *longlisted for the man booker prize **shortlisted for the goldsmiths prize and the gordon burn prize *'i was grippedwhile the fury swirls around them, selvon and ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grimeprovocative, raw, poetic yet tender, in our mad and furious city marks the arrival of a major new talent in fictionbut now, after the killing of a british soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safetheir friend yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque, threatening to carry his troubled brother, irfan, with itremarkable' robert macfarlane, guardian books of the year'a novel so of this moment that you don't even realize you've waited your whole life for it' marlon jamesfor selvon, ardan and yusuf, growing up under the towers of stones estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedomsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop colne road longlisted for the man booker prize and the baileys women's prize for fiction home is a foreign country: they do things differently thereand as a semi-hungarian londoner, who is she? in the meantime, her mother laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she'd expect back in her lifebut the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsiderat combe abbey, a traditional english public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistakeshe isn't noticing that, at combe abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrongin a tiny flat in west london, sixteen-year-old marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, laura, and three ancient hungarian relativesimprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unenglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escapesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even be
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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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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 )by 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 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 novelistsbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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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 wifean astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut 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 careerbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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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 wifean astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut 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 careerbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a major film starring brie larson, winner of the academy award for best actress and the best actress baftashortlisted for the man booker prize, the orange prize and a richard and judy book club selectionjack and ma are prisonersroom by emma donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedomhe lives with his masee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey don't have the keythey live in a single, locked room
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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 novelamid 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 indiadriven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the tiger might escape his cagebalram 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 visionhe works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escapesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen 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 honda' sunday times meet balram halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer
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Oxfam shop evesham from the winner of the man booker prize once upon a time that was called , before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named william buelow gould, a convict in van dieman's land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safesilly billy gould, invader of australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the british empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fishonce upon a time, miraculous things happenedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the man booker prize'written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime' sunday timesstill in her teenage years, nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older manconfined in her tiny flat, nazneen sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons and linings - until the radical karim steps unexpectedly into her lifenazneen knows not a word of english, and is forced to depend on her husband'a brilliant evocation of sensuality' daily telegraph'a novel that will last' guardian'highly evolved and accomplished' observer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreaway from her bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in london's east endon a background of racial conflict and tension, they embark on a love affair that forces nazneen finally to take control of her fate
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Oxfam bookshop hertford shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsdrunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killerswhen he worked as a high-flying british lawyer in moscow, he was seduced by masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruptionthat's what the russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thawsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet as nick fell for masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snowsnick has a confession
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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 notstruggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life foreversee 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 earlierhailed 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 shop colne road shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsdrunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killerswhen he worked as a high-flying british lawyer in moscow, he was seduced by masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruptionthat's what the russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thawsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet as nick fell for masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snowsnick has a confession
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Oxfam shop worcester shortlisted for the man booker prize in see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Tracklist leave it there the way of the cross trust in me a song for the man bring back the springtime in god i trust fill my cup how can you refuse him now? life's railway to heaven the king is coming you must be born again i will sing of my redeemer condition: sleeve -Â vg+ vinyl -Â vg+ see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop shirley the genesis -Â bring back the springtime -Â pilgrim label -Â catpilgrim 408 released in on pilgrim label
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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 is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardshe 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 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 childrenthe 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 perceptiveshe 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 joysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher 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 beganpenelope lively lives in london
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the vodafone crossword book award, shortlisted for independent foreign fiction prize, 'a terrific page-turner' -- boyd tonkin, independent welcome to the shahjahan, one of calcutta's oldest and most venerable hotels' -- vikas swarup, author of slumdog millionaire see oxfam website for delivery information read morechowringhee reveals an irresistible vision of a lost - and loved - metropolis, an homage to an old india of myth and memorychowringhee might, to many eyes, supply more unashamed reader-transporting enjoyment than any other fiction of the yearit teems with life, creating an entirely absorbing world'chowringhee is one of those novels you don't want to endmeet its newest receptionist and hear of the people who spend their days and nights behind the shahjahan's, a world where greed, seduction and death coexist with love, luxury and pride
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Oxfam bookshop hertford a major film starring brie larson, winner of the academy award for best actress and the best actress baftashortlisted for the man booker prizeshortlisted for the orange prizejack is five'room is a book to read in one sittingroom by emma donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedomhe lives in a single, locked room with his mawhen it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' audrey niffenegger, author of the time traveler's wife see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the international impac dublin literary awardwinner of the james tait black prizeshortlisted for the man booker prizeshortlisted for the goldsmiths prizeshortlisted for the walter scott prize for historical fictionas late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threatbut something even darker is at the heart of walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell itsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see walter thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham now a major tv series starring martin clunes, arsher ali and art malikfrom the winner of the man booker prize for fiction , an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten 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 obscuritythis is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and racearthur 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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longlisted for the orange prizeoxfam bookshop hertford a novel of secrets and revenge within a seventeenth-century english familya generation after the civil war, jonathan dymond, a cider maker, has so far enjoyed a quiet lifeunder the pretence of his cider business, jonathan visits his newly widowed aunt and there meets her unruly servant girl, tamar, who soon reveals that she has secrets of her ownsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut when he discovers a letter from his dying uncle, hinting an inheritance and revenge, he is determined to unravel the mystery in his family
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Oxfam shop colne road winner of the man booker prize see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 keepwhen 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 confessorsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough his eyes, and his indelible voice, harvey creates a medieval world entirely tangible in its immediacy
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The story starts there, but the book doesn'twe don't want to tell you too much about this bookoxfam bookshop st albans shortlisted for the commonwealth writers' prize and costa novel of the year, this international bestseller has become a reading group classicwhen 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 unfoldstwo years later they meet again
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The story starts there, but the book doesn'twe don't want to tell you too much about this bookoxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the commonwealth writers' prize and costa novel of the year, this international bestseller has become a reading group classicnevertheless, 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 unfoldswhen you do, please don't tell them what happens either
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This is a copy of kabuki paperback vol 1 - circle of blood this book was nominated for the eisner award in - the international eagle award, the harvey award and the kirby awardfrom a smoke and pet free home read more
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Their task is not made any easier when mowgli is kidnapped at the behest of monkey ruler king louie (louis prima), who wishes to learn the secret of man's power - fire! disney studios' nineteenth animated feature was the last to be overseen by founder walt before his death, and won an academy award nomination for the song 'bare necessities'after being abandoned as a child, young mowgli (voiced by bruce reitherman) is brought up in the jungle by wolveshowever, when the news arrives that murderous, man-hating tiger shere khan (george sanders) has returned, mowgli's friends bagheera (sebastian cabot) and baloo (phil harris) set out to return the reluctant mancub to the humans' villageoxfam shop lytham fun-packed adaptation of rudyard kipling's mowgli storiessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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