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Pet

The award-winning speculative YA from the Sunday Times bestseller

2019 || Paperback || Akwaeke Emezi || Faber & Faber

How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?She stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started coming out of the canvas... She tried to be brave. Well, she said, her hands only a little shaky, at least tell me what I should call you.

... Well, little girl, it replied, I suppose you can call me Pet. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught.

With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown...

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Christmas at Claridges

2013 || Paperback || Karen Swan || Macmillan

'This was where her dreams drifted to if she didn't blot her nights out with drink; this was where her thoughts settled if she didn't fill her days with chat. She remembered this tiny, remote foreign village on a molecular level and the sight of it soaked into her like water into sand, because this was where her old life had ended and her new one had begun.'Portobello - home to the world-famous street market, Notting Hill Carnival and Clem Alderton. She's the queen of the scene, the girl ever...

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Great Expectations

2020 || Paperback || Charles Dickens || Penguin

It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens's original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and sc...

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Les liaisons dangereuses

2021 || Paperback || Pierre Choderlos de Laclos || Hachette

La jeune Cécile Volanges quitte son couvent pour faire l’apprentissage du monde et épouser le comte de Gercourt, mais une de ses parentes, la marquise de Merteuil, entend profiter de ce projet de mariage pour se venger d’une infidélité que lui a faite autrefois Gercourt. Elle charge donc son complice, le vicomte de Valmont, de pervertir Cécile avant ses noces. Mais loin de Paris, dans le château de sa vieille tante, Valmont s’est de son côté mis en tête de séduire la dévote p...

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Grass is Singing

2024 || Paperback || Doris Lessing || HarperCollins

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, `The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to M...

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Orientalism

Western Conceptions of the Orient

2024 || Paperback || Edward W. Said || Penguin

The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry EagletonIn this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. H...

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Year of Wonders

2002 || Paperback || Geraldine Brooks || HarperCollins

A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that t...

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La Religieuse

1972 || Paperback || Denis Diderot || Le Livre de Poche

Un de ses amis, le marquis de Croismare, s'étant intéressé au sort d'une jeune femme qui demandait à sortir du couvent où elle avait été placée contre son gré, Diderot eut l'idée facétieuse, en 1760, de lui adresser des lettres prétendument écrites par la religieuse qui lui demandait secours. Le marquis tomba dans le piège, une correspondance s'ensuivit, et l'écrivain, pris à son propre jeu, finit par composer les mémoires que Suzanne Simonin était censée avoir écrits à l...

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Brave New World

Special 3D Edition

2022 || Paperback || Aldous Huxley || Vintage Publishing

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress... Huxley's ingenious fantasy of t...

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Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien

2020 || Paperback || Georges Perec || Christian Bourgois Editeur

En octobre 1974, Georges Perec s'est installé pendant trois jours consécutifs place Saint-Sulpice à Paris. À différents moments de la journée, il a noté ce qu'il voyait : les événements ordinaires de la rue, les gens, véhicules, animaux, nuages et le passage du temps. Des listes. Les faits insignifiants du quotidien. Rien, ou presque rien. Les mille petits détails inaperçus qui font la vie d'une grande cité – d'un quartier dans une grande cité. Les innombrables variations impe...