Narrative theme: Coming of age
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A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
£8.99A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
Joyce’s classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus’s boyhood and coming of age in Ireland at the turn of the century, his childhood, sexual awakening, intellectual development and revolt against Catholicism, remains one of the key works of modern literature.
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A Song to Drown Rivers
£22.00A Song to Drown Rivers
Inspired by Chinese mythology, She Who Became the Sun meets Daughter of the Moon Goddess in this sweeping adult historical epic with a love story for the ages.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
£9.99Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A beautiful illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll’s classic story for children, with an afterword by Anna South.
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Anyone’s ghost
£16.99Anyone’s ghost
A gorgeous modern love-story about two young men who meet, almost fall in-love, and find their lives caught up in three car crashes – for fans of Call Me By Your Name
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Daughter of the moon goddess
£9.99Daughter of the moon goddess
The bestselling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess.
A young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm, setting her on a dangerous path where those she loves are not the only ones at risk?
*THE INSTANT TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
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Deep end
£9.99Deep end
Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships – at least, that’s what she tells herself. Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes. So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling.
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Emma
£12.99Emma
The beloved author’s feistiest heroine in a gorgeous special edition to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Austen’s birth.
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Farmer Giles of Ham
£8.99Farmer Giles of Ham
A commemorative 75th anniversary edition of Tolkien’s classic book, including a revised introduction, a map, a copy of Tolkien’s unpublished short story which he expanded for publication, his notes for an aborted sequel, and the original first edition illustrations by Pauline Baynes.
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In memoriam
£9.99In memoriam
It’s 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a clue that Ellwood is in love with him, always has been. When Gaunt’s German mother asks him to enlist as an officer in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks, Gaunt signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. The front is horrific, of course, and though Gaunt tries to dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield, Ellwood soon rushes to join him, spurred on by his love of Greek heroes and romantic poetry. Before long, their classmates have followed suit.
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Kokoro
£10.99Kokoro
“Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.” ? Haruki MurukamiOne of the best-selling novels of all time in Japan: a modern classic about love, loneliness and profound social changeA classic of modern Japanese literature, with over 7 million copies sold in Japan alone, told through the relationship between a young man and an enigmatic elder.Left alone in the seaside city of Kamakura, a young student is drawn to an enigmatic older man who swims at the same beach. He makes the older man’s acquaintance, and soon comes to refer to him as Sensei.As their friendship grows, the young student becomes more and more intrigued by the secrets that haunt Sensei, the mysteries of his past that have compromised his present. Against the backdrop of the end of the Meiji era and the rapid modernisation of Japanese life, their relationship endures despite the distance that Sensei maintains – unt
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Learned by heart
£9.99Learned by heart
The sensational historical novel from the bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and The Wonder.
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Life hacks for a little alien
£16.99Life hacks for a little alien
Little Alien lives with her mum and her dad in the South-East of England. Her mum has a ‘how-to’ guide for every situation, and her dad is always kind and always right. And there is her best friend Bobby, who coincidentally has a bob. But it is only when Little Alien sees a documentary about the Voynich Manuscript – a medieval codex written in an unknown language and script – that she begins to suspect that there are other people who feel just like her. Convinced that translating this manuscript will offer the answers she needs, she sets out on a journey that will show her a delicious taste of freedom. So begins Little Alien’s story, told from the perspective of an older, wiser linguist, whose guidance will help Little Alien navigate a world that makes her feel like she doesn’t belong.
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