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From the prize-winning author of }Norwegian By Night{, comes a highly topical and adventurous thriller

All at once, it was as if the stars leapt closer. Grandma grabbed the boy, raising him high above the rooftiles on her head. She was alive!The boy's grandma was a famous architect. Unwilling to accept she has gone, the boy builds a giant structur

The political thriller of the year - UPDATED WITH A DEVASTATING NEW CHAPTER ON THE CHILCOT INQUIRY'Excellent' Sunday Times'Devastating' Daily MailWhen Tony Blair became prime minister in 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest to hold that office

Carol Ann Duffy's beautiful and haunting retellings of classic Grimm tales are brought together for the first time in a luxurious gift edition. Features ethereal line drawings by Tomislav Tomicevoke throughout. Ideal for readers aged seven to 70

Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. This book presents a fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterise

The latter, originally a commission for BBC Radio, rendered the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from this most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus's return from the T

Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers - by guil

Marianne Moore scholar Heather Cass White has prepared an edition of poems that, for the first time, presents the full range of Moore's work in its published order, while honouring the complex textual lives of the poems.

The prizewinning debut from Britain's most exciting contemporary novelist. In a remote dale in a northern English county, a centuries-old rural community has survived into the mid-1930s almost unchanged.

an accomplished, provocative novel.' Literary Review'Hall's fierce and shocking writing captures the cruel beauty of Cumbria.' Telegraph'A dystopian vision of a disturbingly near future in which the floods have risen and the oil has run out .

An exquisitely sensual novel of art, absence, loss and passion, from one of Britain's most exciting contemporary writers. Moving between Italy and England, the lives of four people intertwine across half a century: a dying painter considers the sac

Bit of a wide boy, Terry. Only one person finds it easy to resist his charm and counter his arguments and that's Hilary - one of the serious and dedicated young Civil Servants working in the Home Office in Westminster, who just happens to know t

Set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives

Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best N

Uncumber lives in a dystopian world where all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. Michael Frayn is the award-winning author of Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel A

Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness.

The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers.

After a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan, Danny Lynch is back in New York

'A masterpiece.' Stav Sherez, author of The Intrusions'A thrilling ride.' Irish Times1950s Manhattan: the CIA carries out a covert study of psychoactive drugs.

('Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,' said Eliot of the series, 'so I kept it for myself.') That pamphlet series inventively paired an unpublished poem by a leading writer of the day with new artwork from an eminent artist.

Offering a strange sort of summation and laughter, this titles casts light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence.

He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking about film, and how they'd be a shit-ton better if only people would pull their asses out of their ears and listen to Gordy LaSure. The voyage of

Boek In My House, geschreven door Alex Hourston, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

It was night in the village - a still, dark night - and Harry the Hog was sleeping tight. In her house at the foot of Piggyback Hill, also asleep, was Candy Stripe Lil.

The brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion. This title features three interwoven stories that explore the nature of identity and how we are defined by what we remember. It offers an exploration o

Tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour.

When an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul. In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generatio

In Feather Woman of the Jungle, the people of a Yoruba village gather on ten memorable nights to hear the stories and wisdom of their chief. They learn of his adventures, among them his encounter with the Jungle Witch and her ostrich, his visit to th

Autumn 2004In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew. Spring 2016A year after Lena's release from prison, Andrew is found dead in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed twelve years ago, and who

German forces are closing in, and the village is torn between cooperating to save themselves or putting up resistance and entering unknown danger. How far will Arianne and Luc go to protect what they believe in?

But there are far more dangerous people on the road, Russian soldiers, German deserters - and Major Otto, who likes to play games with people before he kills them. This new edition of an exceptional tale of courage, ingenuity, and the remarkabl

When Prince Abu Ali, son of Aladdin, is born his destiny has already been foretold: he is the one who has been chosen to break the spell of the mysterious Land of Green Ginger. His quest brings him into contact with flying carpets, button-nosed t

No one is quite who he or she seems. Hush Hush is the story of Melisandre - rich, beautiful, possibly insane - who has to live with the knowledge of a devastating event in her past.

Boek Kim Kardashian's Marriage, geschreven door Sam Riviere, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., POETRY / General

Celebrating 10 years of publishing this hilarious and charming tribute to the children's classic, for mums everywhere. The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped

Boek The Jump, geschreven door Doug Johnstone, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General