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$23Grief is the Thing with FeathersOnce upon a time there was a crow, a fairly famous Crow, who wanted nothing more than to care for a pair of motherless children. In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$13Mostly HeroA brilliant genre-bending story from Man Booker Prize winner Anna Burns. Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$10CosmopolitanArmed with magazine as his bible, Gopal embarks on a quest for suburban romance. As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused by Mrs Shaw's large breasts, boy's haircut, and little-girl sneakers. Even her nostrils suggested a frank sexuality. Gopal wanted to put his hands on her waist and pull her towar...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$10The Cheater's Guide to LoveYou try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda. You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more. In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Diaz has created an irresistibly erratic protag...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$10An Elegy for EasterlyThe government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$10Come Rain or Come ShineIn Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting. When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ra...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$10The VictimThe late, great P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: 'He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people mi...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$10The Shielding of Mrs ForbesThinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called 'Footballers with Their Shirts Off' when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer. 'I didn't know you were interested in football,' said Betty. No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not th...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$23Weather'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny' Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to pract...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$25Red At The BoneIt is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer, Melody's...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$25The New MeIn a windowless office, women stand in a circle. One explains something from her real, nonwork life - about the frustration and indignity of returning an item she bought online. One wears a topknot. Another checks her pedometer. Watching them all is Millie. Thirty-years-old and an eternal temp, she...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$20The Bloody Chamber and Other StoriesFrom the liars of the fantastical and fabular and from the domains of the unconscious's mysteries. lie the brides in the Bloody Chamber - hunts unwillingly the Queen of the Vampires - slips Red Riding Hood into the arms of the Wolf - pimps our Puss-In-Boots for his lustful master. In tales that glit...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$26Hot MilkPlunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure wit...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$25Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. The life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$25WaiarikiPatricia Grace's popular first collection – sensitive stories of Maori life which explore Maori spirituality and values and pursue relationships between people, family and races.Format: PaperbackPage Count: 96 PagesImprint: PenguinPublished: Dec 2002ISBN: 9780143020035Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$25DoloresOn a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name her. adjusts to the rhythm of her new life - to the nuns with wild hairs curling from their chins, the soup chewed as if it were meat, the bells that ring throughout the day...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$28Modern TimesThere once was. a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox. a man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter. a couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to be reminded of what love is. a world where you wa...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$12Help YourselfFrom the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of RODHAM comes a dazzling collection of stories that celebrates our humanity in all its pettiness and glory.Sittenfeld’s wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assump...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$23Ms Ice SandwichNew edition of this witty, moving story of adolescent love and loss from the acclaimed, prize- winning author of Breasts and Eggs. A young boy obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him f...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$25Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the caféIn a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$24Open WaterA stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black British artists falling in and out of loveTwo young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$30Bug WeekA science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger’s party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night.is a sca...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$25Convenience Store WomanThe surprise smash hit - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get marrie...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$24Bad BehaviorThe bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in relationships, and the cruelty we inflict on one another.A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0
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