The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighbourhood
The Corner is a devastating portrait of the American drugs war, from the creators of the award-winning series The Wire.
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This Is How
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
From the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down comes a novel of remarkable power and resonance.
When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a r... More »
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The Ice Age
$27.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
A teenage girl is in the passenger seat; the driver is an older man. As they criss-cross America, destined for who knows where, she watches him and wants…what he is, what he has. She sees the black looks and knowing smil... More »
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Between The Assassinations
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )
Welcome to Kittur,
an imaginary everytown nestling on the Indian coast south of Goa
and north of Calicut. Journeying through its streets and
schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and outer
limits, Arav... More »
Armageddon In Retrospect
$29.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces ra... More »
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