Broken Ghost
By: Niall Griffiths
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Welsh community is drawn together and blown apart by a strange vision in the mountains: the huge …
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1. Border Country (Library of Wales)
By: Raymond Williams , Dai Smith
4.03
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke, his son Matthew, a lecturer in London… read more
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- fiction
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2. Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
By: Irvine Welsh
4.05
Format: 548 pages, Paperback
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at universit… read more
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"Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
3. Devil's Day
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
4. The Secret of Crickley Hall
By: James Herbert
3.65
Format: None pages,
The Caleighs have had a terrible year...They need time and space, while they await the news they dr… read more
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- fiction
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6. Our Endless Numbered Days
By: Claire Fuller
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in … read more
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7. The Beach
By: Alex Garland
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
After discovering a seemingly Edenic paradise on an island in a Thai national park, Richard soon fi… read more
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8. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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9. The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
By: Caleb Carr
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES When The Alienistwas first published i… read more
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10. Le Bureau des jardins et des étangs
By: Didier Decoin
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Empire du Japon, epoque Heian, xiie siecle. Etre le meilleur pecheur de carpes, fournisseur des eta… read more
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11. Infinite Ground
By: Martin MacInnes
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A luminous debut novel of modern alienation, of the sinister beauty of the human body and of the en… read more
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12. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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13. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
14. Unsettled Ground
By: Claire Fuller
3.78
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
15. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
16. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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- fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
17. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
18. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
19. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
20. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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- fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
21. The Long Knives
By: Irvine Welsh
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Medi… read more
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"We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up."-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives
22. Babysitter
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and … read more
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- fiction
23. The Night Always Comes
By: Willy Vlautin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gen… read more
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- contemporary
24. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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25. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
26. Paul
By: Daisy Lafarge
3.49
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tend… read more
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- contemporary
27. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
By: M. John Harrison
3.39
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a deca… read more
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- contemporary
28. The Blue Book of Nebo
By: Manon Steffan Ros
4.16
Format: 156 pages, ebook
Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more
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"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
29. Original Sins: An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction
By: Matt Rowland Hill
4.21
Format: 302 pages, ebook
An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - an Observer, New Statesm… read more
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30. Stillicide
By: Cynan Jones
3.36
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
New Yorker fiction writer Cynan Jones returns with a powerful climate crisis story about love and l… read more
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"How often the process of construction starts with destruction."-Cynan Jones, Stillicide
"There is only early morning light. Then the Water Train passes. Different. A weight of sound. The sound of a great waterfall crashing into a pool. It has the power church bells must used to have."-Cynan Jones, Stillicide
31. Broken Ghost
By: Niall Griffiths
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Welsh community is drawn together and blown apart by a strange vision in the mountains: the huge … read more
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