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The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
Richard Brautigan

$19.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers

In the early years of the 20th Century, a huge Victorian mansion stands isolated from the world in the Dead Hills of Eastern Oregon.

It is home to Professor Hawkline, his beautiful daughters, and the secret laboratory th... Buy or find out more 


Cloudsplitter
Russell Banks

$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Owen Brown is the last surviving son of America's most famous political terrorist, John Brown, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the Southern slaves into rebellion.... Buy or find out more 



Herzog
Saul Bellow

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend and he is left alone with his whirling thoughts, yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters a... Buy or find out more 


Year Of Pleasures
Elizabeth Berg

$24.95 – Paperback book / Arrow

A woman rediscovers meaning in life - a rich and deeply satisfying novel by the bestselling author of THE ART OF MENDING and OPEN HOUSE. When Betta Nolan's husband dies, she honours a promise she made to him to move to a... Buy or find out more 



Tooth And Claw
T.C. Boyle

$23.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his a... Buy or find out more 


In Watermelon Sugar
Richard Brautigan

$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage

In Watermelon Sugar is an hypnotic novel about a group of people living in a commune, supporting themselves by making things out of watermelon sugar. Buy or find out more 



Good Earth
Pearl Buck

$19.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster

Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing b... Buy or find out more 


Tales Of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski

$23.95 – Paperback book / City Lights

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sens... Buy or find out more 



Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
William S Burroughs

$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

The anarchic, phenomenally strong–selling classic from the godfather of the Beats: revitalised with a cool new jacket and an anecdote packed P.S. section.

WELCOME TO INTERZONE...

Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the bes... Buy or find out more 


In Cold Blood
Truman Capote

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores ... Buy or find out more 



Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon

$24.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

The book of the hit film starring Michael Douglas, Toby Maguire, Frances McDormand and Robert Downey Jr. From the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Adventures of Kavalier and ClayBuy or find out more 


The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon

$19.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from the author of Wonder Boys. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the... Buy or find out more 



Girl With A Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier

$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration, A Girl With a Pearl Earring is a brilliant historical novel about the corruption of innocence, Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Hollan... Buy or find out more 


I Heard The Owl Call My Name
Margaret Craven

$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador

Mark Brian, a young Anglican priest who has not long to live, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in the wilds of British Columbia.

While sharing the hunting and fishing, the festivals and funerals, the joys and so... Buy or find out more 



White Noise
Don DeLillo

$22.99 – Paperback book / Picador

First published in 1984, White Noise, one of DeLillo's most highly acclaimed novels, tells the story of Jack Gladney and his wife Babette who are both afraid of death. Jack is head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the... Buy or find out more 


Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard

$21.95 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial

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Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world a... Buy or find out more 


House Of Sand And Fog
Andre Dubus

$23.00 – Paperback book / Hachette

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American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis

$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six. He works on Wall St. He is charming, handsome, rich, successful . . . and one of the most vicious killers in history.

"American Psycho" is a funhouse mirror held up against modern culture. ... Buy or find out more 


Tracks
Louise Erdrich

$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial

By turns reticent, garrulous, spiritual and profane, Nanapush, like the Native American culture he belongs to, is a living contradiction – alien, beguiling, strong and dying...

Set in North Dakota, at a time in the ear... Buy or find out more 



Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides

$21.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Lefty and Desdemona must flee the Turks who are invading their crumbling city in the Ottoman Empire, and decide to head for America. What this unusual brother and sister do ... Buy or find out more 


As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her am... Buy or find out more 



The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

$14.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular t... Buy or find out more 


Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle
Fannie Flagg

$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

The eighty-year-old Mrs Clea Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch about her life, she escapes the Rose Terrace Nursing Home and returns in her mind to Whistle Stop, Alabama in the thirties where the Whistle Stop Cafe provides ... Buy or find out more 



Sportswriter
Richard Ford

$23.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent lo... Buy or find out more 


Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

$24.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts ... Buy or find out more 



Princess Bride
William Goldman

$23.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

First published in 1973, The Princess Bride is a cult book which later became a cult film. It tells the story of Buttercup, the most beautiful girl in the world. And of fencing, fighting, torture, poison, true love, hate... Buy or find out more 


Catch-22
Joseph Heller

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously... Buy or find out more 



The Old Man And The Sea
Ernest Hemingway

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize of Literature.... Buy or find out more 


The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton

$19.95 – Paperback book / Puffin

The Socs's idea of having a good time is beating up greasers like Ponyboy.

Ponyboy knows what to expect and knows he can count on his brothers and friends - until the night someone takes things too far.

A ground-breaking... Buy or find out more 



Mr Norris Changes Trains
Christopher Isherwood

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

First published in 1933, Mr Norris Changes Trains portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early thirties between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and the camp and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquantly evocative of... Buy or find out more 


On The Road
Jack Kerouac

$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognised... Buy or find out more 



One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Ken Kesey

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock ther... Buy or find out more 


The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

$23.95 – Paperback book / Faber

The Poisonwood Bible tells the story of an American family in the Congo during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Ba... Buy or find out more 



To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee

$19.95 – Paperback book /

Set in a sleepy town in South Alabama during the Great Depression in the 1930s, this multi-layered story dissects the white and black communities of the American South. Told with gentle humour, it focuses on religious tu... Buy or find out more 


Tales Of The City
Armistead Maupin

$19.95 – Paperback book / Blackstone Press

A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, roma... Buy or find out more 



The Border Trilogy
Cormac McCarthy

$32.95 – Paperback book / Picador

Cormac McCarthy's monumental trilogy together for the first time in one volume.

The Border Trilogy chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys... Buy or find out more 


Bright Lights, Big City
Jay McInerney

$23.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powd... Buy or find out more 



Tropic Of Capricorn
Henry Miller

$19.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press

Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in... Buy or find out more 


Tropic Of Capricorn
Henry Miller

$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

A riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Miller‘s early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spent amongst ‘a galaxy of screwballs‘ to frantic, hilariou... Buy or find out more 



Beloved
Toni Morrison

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. ... Buy or find out more 


Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.'

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to ... Buy or find out more 



Delta Of Venus Modern Classic
Anais Nin

$17.95 – Unknown / Penguin

In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own u... Buy or find out more 


Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk

$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Tyler Durden, a charismatic psychopath starts a fight in a bar's parking lot that attracts a group of disenchanted men. They start a bare-knuckle fight club with the following set of rules: Buy or find out more 

   1. You don't talk about fi...


The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

$23.95 – Paperback book / Faber

This terse account of an American girl's breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering the nature of the material. Sylvia Plath's attention had the quality of ... Buy or find out more 


The Shipping News
Annie Proulx

$24.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

Winner of The Irish Times International Fiction Award and America's National Book Award, this story features Quoyle, a failed journalist, a failed husband and a born loser who heads for a remote corner of Newfoundland wi... Buy or find out more 



The Crying Of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance: trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers... Buy or find out more 


Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any bo... Buy or find out more 



Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Tom Robbins

$19.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press

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Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy's who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgetable childhood. Buy or find out more 



The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger

$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. T... Buy or find out more 


Stone Diaries
Carol Shields

$24.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Her ordinary life is made extraordinary in the telling. Buy or find out more 



The Pilot's Wife
Anita Shreve

$22.95 – Paperback book / Abacus

As a pilot's wife in the New England mill town of her birth, Kathryn Lyons has learned to expect intense exhilaration, occasional boredom and long spells apart from her husband - but nothing prepares Kathryn for the late... Buy or find out more 


A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley

$24.99 – Paperback book / Flamingo

Larry Cook‘s farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single–mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters is disarmi... Buy or find out more 



Angle Of Repose
Wallace Stegner

$25.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. Through the p... Buy or find out more 


Grapes Of Wrath
John Steinbeck

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Calif... Buy or find out more 



Agony And The Ecstasy
Irving Stone

$27.95 – Paperback book / Arrow

Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His timeThe turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola.His... Buy or find out more 


Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan

$19.95 – Paperback book / Minerva

A story of four mothers and their first generation Chinese American daughters. Buy or find out more 



The Secret History
Donna Tartt

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of... Buy or find out more 


A Confederacy Of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole

$12.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city s fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma... Buy or find out more 



The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

How does a man addicted to routine cope with the chaos of everyday life? Macon does his best. He writes Armchair Tourist guidebooks that soothe the travel-hating business man. Even when his son, Ethan, is murdered and hi... Buy or find out more 


Rabbit, Run
John Updike

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

It's 1959 and Harry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing as... Buy or find out more 



Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller – these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world'... Buy or find out more 


Color Purple
Alice Walker

$22.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House

Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no bette... Buy or find out more 



The Age Of Innocence
Edith Wharton

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, wh... Buy or find out more 


Evidence Of Things Unseen
Marianne Wiggins

$22.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster

This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of thi... Buy or find out more 



Bonfire Of The Vanities
Tom Wolfe

$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador

Tom Wolfe's modern American best-selling satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street "Master of the Universe" who has it all - a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful... Buy or find out more 


Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dre... Buy or find out more 



By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
Elizabeth Smart

$20.95 – Paperback book / Random Century

In poetic prose Elizabeth Smart writes of her affair with English poet George Barker, and the implications of this for a woman in 1940s America. This edition also includes Rogues & Rascals, considered a sequel to the... Buy or find out more 


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