The man booker prize winner
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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 )but anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymouran 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 morecromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careerbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final days
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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 prizesbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymouran 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 morecromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careerbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final days
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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 prizesbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymouran 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 morecromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careerbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final days
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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-pullersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreamid 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 cagewhen 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 escapeadiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision
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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 holidayat 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 rhinespending 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 fatherhe is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time aroundbut 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 nothailed as a masterpiece, richard flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truthstruggling 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 earlier
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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 conflictand as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survivaloxfam shop dumfries the dazzling novel from the bestselling author of cloud atlassee oxfam website for delivery information read moreover 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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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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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 evocativehandsome and privileged, he inhabits a london worlds away from theirssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreis 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 timesafter years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in america, resuming a dream long deferredbut 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 knewas the son of a powerful british muslim politician, eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defythen eamonn enters the sisters' livesa powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' guardian isma is free
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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 year' 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 warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethen when a young indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survivehaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in
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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 moreoxfam 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 thingsmeanwhile, 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 lifea teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of englandmidwinter in the early years of this centuryan 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 subsidethe 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 homereservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss
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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 yearsee 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 survivehaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in
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winner of the costa novel award; longlisted for the man booker prize; shortlisted for the goldsmiths prizean 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 subsidemeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearseda 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 see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 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 loss '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')oxfam bookshop kingsbridge signed by author job mcgregor to the title page, without date or dedicationbinding has a slight lean, and there are light surface marks to the unclipped dust jacket, otherwise in very good clean condition
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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 selectionthey don't have the keyhe lives with his masee oxfam website for delivery information read morejack and ma are prisonersthey 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 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 safesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreonce upon a time, miraculous things happenedsilly 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 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 racemost 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 morebut 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 outragesarthur 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 colne road winner of the man booker prize see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 dh lawrence and his german wife, frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips londonthey 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-shocksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinto this turmoil come dlawrence and his german wife hiding out in cornwall during the first world warspring, , 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 storiesshe is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writeryet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escape
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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 lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreimprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unenglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escapeat combe abbey, a traditional english public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistakeshe 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 relativesbut the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsidershe isn't noticing that, at combe abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrong
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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 grippedtheir 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 itsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhile the fury swirls around them, selvon and ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grimebut 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, freedomprovocative, raw, poetic yet tender, in our mad and furious city marks the arrival of a major new talent in fiction
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Oxfam bookshop harrogate longlisted for the man booker prize , longlisted for the wainwright prize , shortlisted for the gordon burn prizethis 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 presentbut it also belongs to dead papa toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woodscondition- as newdead papa toothwort, who is listening to them all see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit belongs to mad pete, the grizzled artistto families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved herechimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful - a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love, lanny is the globally anticipated new novel from max porternot far from london, there is a villageto ancient peggy, gossiping at her gate
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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 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 life'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 morenazneen 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 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 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 sellas 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**one of the guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century** see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelampy's heart has been laid waste by chloejohn's past torments him as he nears his endfrom war-torn syria to small-town ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of homeeach is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways
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Oxfam bookshop hertford shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsnick has a confessionsee 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 snowswhen 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 thawdrunks, 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 killers
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Oxfam shop colne road shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsnick has a confessionsee 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 snowswhen 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 thawdrunks, 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 killers
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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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Oxfam shop worcester shortlisted for the man booker prize in see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Story reader sponge bob squarepants “grand prize winner” paperback book + cartridge new
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