The Death of Francis Bacon
By: Max Porter
3.14
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing a…
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1. Naissance d'un pont
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.40
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
« À l’aube du second jour, quand soudain les buildings de Coca montent, perpendiculaires à la surfa… read more
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- fiction
2. Elegy for Kosovo
By: Ismail Kadare , Peter Constantine
3.83
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the brutal ethnic cleansing that took place in 1997 and 1998 in Kosovo, this collection… read more
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- literature
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
By: Ted Hughes
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Hardcover
Crowwas Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy
By: William H. Gass , Robert Burton
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, … read more
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5. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
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7. Holloway
By: Robert Macfarlane , Stanley Donwood , Dan Richards
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll a… read more
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8. Detective Story
By: Imre Kertész , Tim Wilkinson
2.00
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims' point of vi… read more
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9. Chroma
By: Derek Jarman
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Chroma is a meditation on the color spectrum by the celebrated late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarm… read more
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10. W.
By: Tiemen Hiemstra
3.88
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
W. is drie jaar geleden verdwenen. W. is slechts de werkelijkheid. W. zuigt wandelende takken… read more
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- fiction
11. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
- audiobook
12. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
13. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
15. Diego Garcia
By: Natasha Soobramanien
3.89
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
16. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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- poetry
17. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- art
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
18. Topographia Hibernica
By: Blindboy Boatclub
4.33
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Scenes from a Childhood
By: Jon Fosse
3.67
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- 21st century
20. I Paint What I Want to See
By: Philip Guston
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twenti… read more
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- art
21. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
By: Geoff Dyer
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathry… read more
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- art
- audiobook
22. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
23. Ness
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.84
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chape… read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- art
- novella
- fiction
"Look — here they come, their eyes are hagstones & their words are shingle. They rise on the shore, rock-cored, flint beings, scattering chert to signal their passage, sending stones through time to f…"-Robert Macfarlane, Ness
"Look — here it comes, its bones are plastic, it builds itself from pallet slat & bottle top, rises from sift, is lashed & trussed with fishing line. It is drift: it has cuttlefish nails & sea-poppy h…"-Robert Macfarlane, Ness
24. Bright Fear
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more
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- poetry
25. The Death of Francis Bacon
By: Max Porter
3.14
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing a… read more
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- poetry
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- art
- literature
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 21st century
- audiobook
26. The Sitter
By: Angela O'Keeffe
3.77
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggli… read more
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- literature
- art
- literary fiction
- fiction
27. Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia
By: Marie Darrieussecq
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French … read more
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28. Losing the Plot
By: Derek Owusu
3.37
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 20… read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- 21st century
29. Thunderhead
By: Miranda Darling
3.62
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway beg… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
30. Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
By: Derek Jarman
3.75
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Published here for the very first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping … read more
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31. Francis Bacon en su estudio
By: Michael Peppiat
4.00
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Lo que veía Bacon y cómo pasaba por la picadora de su imaginación son cosas que sólo llegaremos a … read more
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