Narrative theme: Politics
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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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Do not say we have nothing
£9.99Do not say we have nothing
In Canada in 1990, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home. She is Ai-Ming, a young woman from China who has fled following the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square incident. As her relationship with Marie deepens she tells the story of her family in revolutionary China.
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Everything’s fine
£9.99Everything’s fine
When Jess, a liberal Black woman, and Josh, a preppy white conservative, fall reluctantly, complicatedly, deeply in love, they are forced to ask themselves whether love can overcome two very different ways of seeing the world.
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Holmes and Moriarty
£18.99Holmes and Moriarty
Another clever and intriguing crime mystery from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Turnglass. The first Sherlock Holmes novel to be authorised by the Conan Doyle Estate since Anthony Horowitz’s The House of Silk.
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Julia
£9.99Julia
It’s 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen – cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She’s very good at staying alive. But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department – a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith, she comes to realise that she’s losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.
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Lula Dean’s little library of banned books
£16.99Lula Dean’s little library of banned books
‘A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
£8.99One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison camp system, the author’s classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes.
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Teddy
£16.99Teddy
‘Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted’Sunday Times Style
‘Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive’ Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable
Teddy has earned a fresh start. But some secrets just won’t stay hidden?
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The blood of others
£9.99The blood of others
Jean Blomart, privileged bourgeois turned patriot leader against the Nazi occupation, waits through the night for his lover to die. Flashbacks interweave the stories of both their lives until, with dawn approaching, Jean faces a monumental decision.
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The handmaid’s tale
£9.99The handmaid’s tale
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function – to breed. If she deviates, she will be killed. But even an oppressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred’s nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
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The last man
£12.99The last man
Written while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting crises including the climate-changing Mount Tambora eruption and a raging cholera outbreak, ‘The Last Man’ (1826) is an early work of climate fiction and a prophetic depiction of environmental change. Set in the late twenty-first century, a deadly pandemic leaves a lone survivor, and follows his journey through a post-apocalyptic world, devoid of humanity and reclaimed by nature.
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Tiger work
£9.99Tiger work
This earth that we love is in grave danger because of us. Forests are becoming legends, rare as unicorns. If we continue to live as we do now, Okri argues in this evocative collection, there will be no world left for us to fix. He imagines messages, sent to us from beyond the end, from those who saw it coming – from Africa, Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world – exhorting us to change, now. Inspired by environmental activism, Ben Okri makes a powerful and very personal appeal for change. Combining fiction, essay, and poetry, ‘Tiger Work’ displays Okri’s classic blend of storytelling, fantasy, and magic.
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