The man booker prize for fiction
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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 mysterythis is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and racebut 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 outragessee oxfam website for delivery information read moremost of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can provearthur and george grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century britain: arthur in shabby-genteel edinburgh, george in the vicarage of a small staffordshire villagearthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while george remains in hard-working obscurity
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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 wifebut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final dayssee 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 seymourcromwell 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 wifebut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final dayssee oxfam website for delivery information read morean 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 seymourcromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career
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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 wifebut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final dayssee oxfam website for delivery information read morean 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 seymourcromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career
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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 barmanhe recalls his first trip to germany with his newly single fathersee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the morning, futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his week-long circular walk along the rhineas he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage and his ownhe is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time aroundat 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 absencebut 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 find
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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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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 atlasand as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survivalover six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining
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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 novelsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebalram was born in a backwater village on the river ganges, the son of a rickshaw-pullerwhen 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 hondahe works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape' sunday times meet balram halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murdereradiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and visiondriven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the tiger might escape his cageamid 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
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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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Oxfam bookshop hertford 'a cracking historical novel - with a twinge of the surreal - about passion and obsession' the timesshorlisted for the women's prize for fiction one september evening in , the merchant jonah hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstepwhat will be the cost of their ambitions? and will they be able to escape the legendary destructive power a mermaid is said to possess? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreas gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see mr hancock's marvelhe has sold jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaidthis meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new courseits arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence and through the doors of high society, where he meets angelica neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes onand a courtesan of great accomplishment
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Winner of the women's prize for fictioncollection onlypaperback book is in very good conditionthe road home by the author rose tremain
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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 timesas 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 morea powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' guardian isma is freehandsome and privileged, he inhabits a london worlds away from theirsbut 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 knewafter years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in america, resuming a dream long deferredthen eamonn enters the sisters' lives
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'helen dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' daily mail 'a beautiful and inspired novel' john le carré 'secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make dunmore's stories ripple with menace and suspense' sunday times helen dunmore has published eleven novels with penguin: zennor in darkness, which won the mckitterick prize; burning bright; a spell of winter, which won the orange prize; talking to the dead; your blue-eyed boy; with your crooked heart; the siege, which was shortlisted for the whitbread novel of the year award and for the orange prize for fiction ; mourning ruby; house of orphans; counting the stars and the betrayal, which was longlisted for the man booker prizeoxfam bookshop cheltenham in her prize-winning first novel, zennor in darkness, helen dunmore reimagines the plight of dshe is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writerthey befriend clare coyne, a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin, john william, who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell-shockspring, , and war haunts the cornish coastal village of zennor: ships are being sunk by u-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy storiessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinto this turmoil come dlawrence and his german wife hiding out in cornwall during the first world waryet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escapeh lawrence and his german wife, frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips london
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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 lifeimprisoned 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 isn't noticing that, at combe abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrongbut the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsidershe is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even bein a tiny flat in west london, sixteen-year-old marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, laura, and three ancient hungarian relativesat combe abbey, a traditional english public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake
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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 grippedprovocative, raw, poetic yet tender, in our mad and furious city marks the arrival of a major new talent in fictionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut now, after the killing of a british soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is saferemarkable' 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, freedomwhile the fury swirls around them, selvon and ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grimetheir 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 it
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the costa book of the yearwinner of the walter scott prize for historical fiction winner of the independent bookshop week book award longlisted for the man booker prize 'pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the yearhaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit insee oxfam website for delivery information read more' observerafter signing up for the us army in the s, aged barely seventeen, thomas mcnulty and his brother-in-arms, john cole, fight in the indian wars and the civil warthen when a young indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive
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Oxfam shop pershore *new novel a thousand moons now available*winner of the costa book of the year winner of the walter scott prize for historical fiction winner of the independent bookshop week book award longlisted for the man booker prize 'pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the yearhaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit insee oxfam website for delivery information read more' observer after signing up for the us army in the s, aged barely seventeen, thomas mcnulty and his brother-in-arms, john cole, fight in the indian wars and the civil warthen when a young indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive
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In he was awarded the prince of asturias prize for literaturehe has also been a finalist for the international impac dublin literary award (the book of illusions), the pen/faulkner award (the music of chance), the edgar award (city of glass), and the man booker prize ()in , he was the first recipient of the nyc literary honors in the category of fictionauthor: paul auster
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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 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 fictionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis beautifully illustrated folio society edition is in excellent condition and is housed in its own boxed pictorial sleeve
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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 mark'the fourteen brief stories in beyond the blue mountains reveal penelope lively at her most polished and perceptivesee 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 began"the slovenian giantess" is a condensed masterpiece' sunday times'penelope lively is a genius and this collection is a joyshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inthe 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 experiencepenelope lively lives in londonin 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 childrenshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread award
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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'this is the city in which everything is simultaneoushere too is the london of prehistory, of georgian elegance, of the blitzsee 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 beganshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inbut matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for london in docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his own'in london's changing heartland, architect matthew halland is aware of how the past and the present blend'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 childrenthere is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and constructionpenelope lively lives in londonshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread award
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Oxfam bookshop harrogate longlisted for the man booker prize , longlisted for the wainwright prize , shortlisted for the gordon burn prize see oxfam website for delivery information read moreto ancient peggy, gossiping at her gateto families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved hereit belongs to mad pete, the grizzled artistnot far from london, there is a villagebut 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 allthis village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years agoit belongs to england's mysterious past and its confounding presentcondition- as new
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Winner of the costa novel awardlonglisted for the man booker prize shortlisted for the goldsmiths prize 'a rare and dazzling feat of art' george saunders, author of lincoln in the bardo'mcgregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation' sarah hall, author of the wolf border'reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary - the way it's structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which jon mcgregor lets the characters breathe and age' roddy doyle, author of paddy clarke ha ha ha see oxfam website for delivery information read morean extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subsidereservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's lossa teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of englandmeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsedthe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday lifethe villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet homemidwinter in the early years of this centuryoxfam bookshop st albans winner of the costa novel awarda guardian book of the yearan ft book of the yeara tls book of the yeara telegraph book of the yearfrom the award-winning author of if nobody speaks of remarkable things
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Winner of the costa novel award; longlisted for the man booker prize; shortlisted for the goldsmiths prize see oxfam website for delivery information read morebinding has a slight lean, and there are light surface marks to the unclipped dust jacket, otherwise in very good clean conditionthe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday lifemeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsedmidwinter in the early years of this centuryfrom the award-winning author of if nobody speaks of remarkable things, reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's lossa teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of englandfirst edition, first printing - indicated by the single number 1 on the copyright page 'mcgregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation' (sarah hall, author of the wolf border')the villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet homeoxfam bookshop kingsbridge signed by author job mcgregor to the title page, without date or dedicationan extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subside
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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 prisonerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe lives with his mathey don't have the keythey 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, freedom
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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 ita 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 witchcraftsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 safeonce upon a time, miraculous things happenedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresilly 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 fish
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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 manon a background of racial conflict and tension, they embark on a love affair that forces nazneen finally to take control of her fate'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 moreconfined 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 husbandaway from her bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in london's east end
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the baileys' women's prize for fiction winner of the desmond elliot prize we all do stupid things when we're kidsthe prostitute searching for the man she never knew she'd miss until he disappeared without trace one nightthe gangland boss using his dad as a 'cleaner'the neighbour who says she's trying to help but maybe wants something more than thatbut the truth is, you don't know your own strength till you need itand nobody says ryan's stupidnot even behind his backif he blows that, he's all alonesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit's the people around him who are the problemryan cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for youthe only one on ryan's side is his girlfriend karine
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