Narrative theme: Coming of age
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Persuasion
£12.99Persuasion
A gorgeous special edition of Jane Austen’s most sophisticated novel to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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Pity party
£18.99Pity party
Katherine lives by the rules, ticks all the boxes and prepares for the worst, even while she hopes for the best. Then the worst actually happens and, as she tries to navigate life as a young widow, it turns out she was not prepared at all. Nothing scares Katherine more than stopping, but everyone insists she needs to take some time for herself. Head to a wellness retreat, they said. Enjoy some me-time, they said. Except this retreat isn’t the pity party she was hoping for. Instead of massages, she has erotic meditation, and instead of spa treatments she has scream therapy. Katherine has never lost control in her life. In fact, she’s fairly certain that if she starts screaming she might never stop. But she’s about to let go, and everyone had better stand back.
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Pride and prejudice
£12.99Pride and prejudice
A gorgeous special edition of Jane Austen’s most enduring and popular novel to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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Ravensong
£10.99Ravensong
Ravensong is a passionate fantasy from bestselling author TJ Klune, and is the second book in the Green Creek series. After his pack betrayed him, Gordo swore to never again deal with wolves. But some ties are hard to sever, and the return of an old flame will test his resolve . . .
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Sense and sensibility
£12.99Sense and sensibility
A special edition of Jane Austen’s elegant novel of family, society and manners to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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Ship of magic
£10.99Ship of magic
‘As addictive as morphine’ THE TIMES
From the author of the classic Farseer trilogy, SHIP OF MAGIC is the first part of the Liveship Traders. Set in a land bordering the Six Duchies, Robin Hobb begins her epic tale of pirates, talking ships, magic, sea serpents, slave revolts, dashing heroes and bloody battles.
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Small worlds
£9.99Small worlds
The one thing that can solve Stephen’s problems is dancing. Dancing at church, with his parents and brother, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise; he might have lost his faith, but he does believe in rhythm. Dancing with his friends, somewhere in a basement with the drums about to drop, while the DJ spins garage cuts. Dancing with his band, making music which speaks not just to the hardships of their lives, but the joys too. Dancing with his best friend Adeline, two-stepping around the living room, crooning and grooving, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone, at home, to his father’s records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But what becomes of him when the music fades? ‘Small Worlds’ is an exhilarating and expansive novel about the worlds we build for ourselves, the worlds we live, dance and love within.
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Stardust
£25.00Stardust
Life moves at a leisurely pace in the town of Wall. Here, Tristan Thorn has lost his heart to Victoria Forester – and for the coveted prize of her hand he vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. This oath sends him over the ancient wall and into a strange and dangerous world.
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Starter villain
£9.99Starter villain
Inheriting a family business is never easy – and this one includes a hidden volcano lair, minions, talking cats and supervillains. Starter Villain is a Hugo Award-nominated, page-turning adventure from New York Times bestseller John Scalzi.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
£12.99The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Set in pre-Civil War Missouri and traversing the Mississippi River region, Twain’s sequel to his picaresque novel ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ follows Huck as he stages his own death to escape his alcoholic father and sets off on an odyssey marked by comedy, danger, and adventure. He soon meets Jim, the enslaved man working for Huck’s erstwhile guardians, the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. Jim had run away after overhearing the ladies discuss selling him, and Huck and Jim set sail on a raft down the Mississippi, headed for the Free State of Illinois. Twain’s piquant humour finds full expression in this 19th-century literary classic, and Huck’s frank, boyish narration, told in the vernacular of his time, offers true merriment. But despite Twain’s disavowal, the story’s moral centre becomes inarguably apparent when Jim is caught and Huck vows to help his friend escape.
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The glassmaker
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The instrumentalist
£16.99The instrumentalist
Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away. At the Ospedale della Pietà , abandoned orphan girls are posted every day through a tiny gap in the wall. Anna Maria is just one of the three hundred girls growing up within the Pietà ‘s walls – but she already knows she is different. Obsessive and gifted, she is on a mission to become Venice’s greatest violinist and composer, and in her remarkable world of colour and sound, it seems like nothing will stop her. But the odds are stacked against an orphan girl – so when the maestro selects her as his star pupil, Anna Maria knows she must do everything in her power to please this difficult, brilliant man. But as Anna Maria’s star rises, threatening to eclipse that of her mentor, the dream she has so single-mindedly pursued is thrown into peril.
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