Satirical fiction & parodies
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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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Animal Farm
£7.99Animal Farm
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. Orwell’s allegoric story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption is as fresh today as when it was first published in 1945.
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Brat
£9.99Brat
Gabriel’s skin is falling off. His dad is dead. He owes his editor a novel. His girlfriend won’t answer his calls. Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel’s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents’ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there’s a hideous man in the garden.
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Catch-22
£9.99Catch-22
At the heart of Joseph Heller’s bestselling novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of Captain Yossarian who spends his time plotting to survive.
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Death and the penguin
£9.99Death and the penguin
Viktor is lonely, with only Misha, his penguin, for company. He is desperate to earn a living as a writer. He gets a break when the editor-in-chief of a major newspaper commissions him to write obituaries of Kiev’s VIP’s. But are his worries now over?
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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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Emma
£18.99Emma
Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances’ love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.
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Equal Rites
£10.99Equal Rites
A wizard predicts his own death and readies himself for the traditional transfer of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. The snag is that the eighth son is a daughter and women can’t be wizards.
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Fundamentally
£16.99Fundamentally
When academic Nadia is disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, she decides to make a getaway – accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues. But then Nadia meets Sara, a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just 15, and she is struck by how similar their stories are. Both from a Muslim background, both feisty and opinionated, with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines, Sara and Nadia immediately connect and a powerful friendship forms. When Sara confesses a secret, Nadia is forced to make a difficult choice.
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Gulliver’s travels
£9.99Gulliver’s travels
Jonathan Swift’s classic is one the greatest novels written in the English language. Gulliver journeys through a series of islands meeting a fantastical array of people – including the famous, tiny Liliputions. His observations oblige the reader to think of themselves in such company, and think beyond their own preconceived notions.
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Gulliver’s travels
£6.99Gulliver’s travels
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses.
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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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Light over Liskeard
£9.99Light over Liskeard
Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven. Over the course of this quest he meets the eccentric characters who already live on the moors nearby – including the park ranger in charge of the reintroduced lynxes and aurochs that roam the area; a holy man waiting for the second coming on top of a nearby hill; an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse. As life in the cities gets more complicated, and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart, Q flourishes in the wild Cornish countryside.
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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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Lula Dean’s little library of banned books
£9.99Lula Dean’s little library of banned books
‘Clever and astute ? a cracking read’ The Belfast Telegraph
‘One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways’ Hello Magazine
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Mansfield Park
£12.99Mansfield Park
A gorgeous special edition of Austen’s classic novel about class and virtue to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of her birth.
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