Narrative theme: Social issues
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Anita de Monte laughs last
£9.99Anita de Monte laughs last
A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death in this mesmerising novel from the New York Times-bestselling author
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Beloved
£9.99Beloved
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe’s new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless.
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Bewilderment
£9.99Bewilderment
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade, for smashing his friend’s face with a metal thermos. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, while all the while fostering his son’s desperate campaign to help save this one.
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Breaststrokes
£9.99Breaststrokes
One weekend. Four women. A novel about desire and consent. Cleverly structured and told over the course of one weekend, Breaststrokes will see the four women’s lives overlap and interweave as they grapple with who they are in this modern world.
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Comrade Papa
£12.00Comrade Papa
Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in the Côte d’Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes into a coast as yet untouched by colonisation. A century later and a young Black boy born to communist parents in Amsterdam begins to research his family history. When he is sent to Côte d’Ivoire to visit his grandmother, he will discover traces of an ancestor he never knew existed.
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Convenience store woman
£9.99Convenience store woman
Keiko has never really fitted in. At school and university people find her odd and her family worries she’ll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace and purpose in the simple, daily tasks and routine interactions. She is, she comes to understand, happiest as a convienience store worker. But in Keiko’s social circlel it just won’t do for an unmarried woman to spend all her time stacking shelves and re-ordering green tea.
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Day one
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Down and out in Paris and London
£7.99Down and out in Paris and London
Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this book documents his ‘first contact with poverty’: sleeping in bug-infested hostels, working as a dishwasher in Paris, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps.
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Dr. No
£9.99Dr. No
A madcap spy satire from from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure.
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Fahrenheit 451
£9.99Fahrenheit 451
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.
Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.
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Frankenstein
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Hard times
£9.99Hard times
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.
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How I won a Nobel Prize
£9.99How I won a Nobel Prize
A hilariously sharp comic novel that, with astonishing wit and intelligence, skewers the burning issues of our times.
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How to sleep at night
£16.99How to sleep at night
A SUNDAY TIMES HOTTEST READ OF 2025
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025
‘Sparkles with wit and insight? A must-read’ DOLLY ALDERTON
‘Extraordinary’ DAILY MAIL
‘An irresistible comedy of manners’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Deliciously chaotic? feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale’ THE TIMES, Book of the Month
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Human acts
£9.99Human acts
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend’s corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma.
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In a thousand different ways
£9.99In a thousand different ways
The gripping and emotional novel from the million-copy bestselling author of PS, I Love You
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